Railway underbridge MDL1/35, Howley Mill Lane

This is a railway underbridge for the Leeds, Dewsbury & Manchester Railway line, built in the mid-1840s by Thomas Grainger.

The bridge is made from quarry-faced sandstone and ashlar. It allows a right of way and a small stream to pass beneath the railway line. The structure features squared and coursed quarry-faced sandstone, with the coping of the face and wing walls made of squared ashlar. Both sides of the bridge are designed in the same way. The segmental arch consists of stepped, rusticated v-jointed sandstone voussoirs that start from a low impost band with squared edges and chamfered top and bottom edges. There is a concave-moulded ashlar cornice, and on the east side, this cornice supports a triangular parapet made of large stone slabs set on edge. The curved and raked wing walls also have squared ashlar coping stones. Additionally, a low stone wall with semi-circular coping stones runs along the length of the bridge and extends beyond on both sides, separating the higher-level lane from the stream.