Railway overbridge MVL3/107, Colne Bridge (B1168 Bridge Road)

The railway overbridge at Colne Bridge, built between 1845 and 1849, was designed by A S Jee for the Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and later widened by the London and North Western Railway from 1881 to 1884.

Constructed from squared coursed quarry-faced gritstone, tooled gritstone, and blue engineering brick, this three-span bridge features segmental arches, with a smaller fourth arch over a cutting. The northern end is partially hidden by an adjacent embankment. The faces of the arches are adorned with tooled keyed voussoirs and projecting key stones, resting on slightly projecting ashlar impost bands. The voussoirs protrude slightly from the stone block soffits of the arches. The abutments and spandrels are made of coursed quarry-faced gritstone, with the ends of the three railway arches supported by projecting vertical-faced buttresses.

The stone courses in the spandrels are uniformly high, leading to a slightly projecting quarry-faced string course that supports a second ashlar course. The string courses on either side of the bridge serve as the base for the parapet walls, which are topped with ashlar coping stones that end in rectangular stone piers, projecting from the bridge's face. Towards the northern end of the north-east parapet wall, there is a blocked pedestrian gateway.

A plain bay with inclined string courses and parapet walls separates the railway arches from the smaller southern arch, which matches the design of the other arches but is both lower and narrower, featuring an arch soffit made of blue engineering bricks. This arch is flanked by vertical faced buttresses that support rectangular stone piers. The southern buttresses are partially concealed by curved and canted wing walls, which have flat ashlar coping stones that finish in low stone newel posts with capstones.