Ogston Lane Bridge (SPC8 65)

A single-span railway bridge carrying Ogston Lane over the Midland Main Line, and designed by George and Robert Stephenson and their Assistant Engineer Frederick Swanwick for the North Midland Railway, built c.1836-40.

MATERIALS: coursed squared quarry-faced Derbyshire gritstone with ashlar dressings and red-brick soffit linings.

DESCRIPTION: the bridge comprises a single, 30ft wide, segmental arch formed of rusticated V-jointed voussoirs and a projecting keystone. The voussoirs radiate outwards to fill the spandrels and form quoins to the arch soffit, brick linings. The arch rises from an ashlar impost band with a chamfered top edge and a drip groove to the lower edge. The masonry abutments rise from an ashlar plinth, and have a slightly concave profile. They terminate at the bridge arch in ashlar quoining set against, and a little in advance of, the arch voussoirs. Above the arch, a bold ashlar, roll moulding extends across the full length of the bridge elevation, The bridge has low parapets of quarry-faced masonry with broad flat ashlar copings which terminate at capped semi-octagonal piers, the facets of which face outwards.