Ogston Lane Bridge (SPC8 65)

Ogston Lane Bridge is a single-span railway bridge that carries Ogston Lane over the Midland Main Line. It was designed by George and Robert Stephenson along with their Assistant Engineer Frederick Swanwick for the North Midland Railway, and it was built around 1836 to 1840.

The bridge is constructed from coursed squared quarry-faced Derbyshire gritstone, featuring ashlar dressings and red-brick soffit linings. It has a single, 30-foot wide segmental arch made of rusticated V-jointed voussoirs, with a projecting keystone. The voussoirs extend outward to fill the spandrels and form quoins at the arch soffit, which is lined with brick. The arch rises from an ashlar impost band that has a chamfered top edge and a drip groove along the lower edge. The masonry abutments, which have a slightly concave profile, rise from an ashlar plinth and meet the arch with ashlar quoining set slightly in advance of the arch voussoirs. Above the arch, a bold ashlar roll moulding runs the full length of the bridge elevation. The bridge features low parapets made of quarry-faced masonry, topped with broad flat ashlar copings that end at capped semi-octagonal piers, with the facets of these piers facing outward.