Railway Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the High Peak local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1998. Railway bridge. 3 related planning applications.
Railway Bridge
- WRENN ID
- upper-bailey-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- High Peak
- Constituency
- High Peak MP: Jon Pearce (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1998
- Type
- Railway bridge
- Address
- Railway Bridge, Buxton Road, Whaley Bridge
- OS grid reference
- SK 011 811
- Coordinates
- 53.32732, -1.98422
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The railway bridge, built around 1863, is possibly designed by William Baker, the Chief Engineer of the London and North Western Railway. It features a cast iron structure supported by stone abutments. The abutments are made of quarry-faced grindstone with dressed stone caps. The double track bed is held up by four cast iron arched ribs, which are cast in two parts and joined at the center. The spandrels of the bridge have five rectangular-headed openings that diminish towards the center. Above, there is a cornice and a solid iron parapet.
This bridge carries the Whaley Bridge to Buxton line of the Stockport, Disley and Whaley Bridge railway, which was opened on June 16, 1863. It was an extension of the line from Stockport to Whaley Bridge that opened in 1857 and became part of the London and North Western Railway in 1866.
Local climate
Railway Bridge sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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