Footbridge over railway to the west of Pingle Lane (SPC8 34)

BUILDING: railway accommodation overbridge.

DATE: constructed between1837-1840, as part of the development of the North Midland Railway, with late C20 minor alterations.

ARCHITECT: the bridge is thought to have been constructed to a standard design. An indenture of the 5th of December 1837 refers to 'specification and drawings or plan which have been prepared by, or under the direction of supervision of George Stephenson and Frederick Swanwick, the principal and resident engineers appointed by the said Company' (the North Midland Railway Company).

MATERIALS: ashlar and regularly coursed squared Derbyshire gritstone, with brick linings to the arch soffit.

PLAN: the bridge is a single-arch overbridge carrying a footpath over the railway. It is aligned east-west.

DESCRIPTION: the bridge has a wide segmental arch springing rising from an impost band set on ashlar quoining. The arch is formed from V-jointed ashlar voussoirs below a deep roll moulding, Above the moulding is an ashlar plinth course and a single course of rectangular gritstone blocks which together form the parapet walls of the bridge. Above these are deep, wide ashlar copings with rounded upper arrises. There are substantial slightly splayed abutments walls at either end of the bridge which terminate at ashlar quoins, advanced slightly beyond the arch spandrels.