Railway overbridge MVL3/103, Colliery Lane (Wheatleys)

The railway overbridge, built between 1845 and 1849 and designed by A S Jee for the Huddersfield and Manchester Railway, features a second span added between 1881 and 1884.

Constructed from squared coursed quarry-faced gritstone and tooled gritstone, this double-span bridge has a segmental arch design that spans a cutting, with its ends hidden by adjacent embankments. The arches are adorned with tooled keyed voussoirs and projecting key stones, resting on slightly projecting ashlar impost bands. The voussoirs extend slightly from the soffits of the arches. The abutments and spandrels are made of coursed quarry-faced gritstone, with the quoins of the abutments featuring tooled edges. Canted buttresses support the central pier and the ends of the bridge. The stone courses in the spandrels are uniform in height, leading up to an ashlar string course that serves as a base for the parapet wall. Each parapet is topped with ashlar coping stones and ends in a rectangular stone pier that projects from the bridge face. The north-western ends of the parapets slightly splay out, while the southern abutment has curved and canted wing walls on either side. A triple tubular steel fence with cast-iron posts, marked "SYDNEY RAINES WAKEFIELD," protects the parapets, with bolted struts recessed into the coping stones. The bridge deck is part of the Sustrans National Cycle Route 66, featuring a raised tarmacadam surface, with modern steel mesh fencing along the sides, supported by steel posts.