Bridge Number 438 (Belvedere Bridge)

Belvedere Bridge, also known as Bridge Number 438, is a railway bridge dating from 1848, designed by engineer William Baker. It was restored and slightly altered in 1984. The bridge features chamfered rusticated grey sandstone ashlar piers, engineering brick retaining walls, and end piers with ashlar dressings. It has painted cast iron arches and decking, with two segmental skew arches, each made up of six cast ribs with lattice spandrels. The central pier includes a rounded rock-faced cutwater, and there are coped curved retaining walls along with square end piers that have rock-faced ashlar quoins and stone caps. A late 20th-century balustrade has replaced the original one from 1848.

On the eastern arch to the south, there is a maker's plate that reads "CAST AT COALBROOKDALE FOUNDRY 1848." The central pier has shield-shaped plaques to the south stating "WILLIAM BAKER ESQ/ENGINEER/1848" and to the north "HAMMOND AND MURRAY/CONTRACTOR/1848." Datestones are also present on the railway side of the parapets of the central pier. Each rib of the arches consists of short cast sections that are bolted together. The bridge spans the River Severn and was part of the Shrewsbury to Oakengates section of the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway, which opened on June 1, 1849, with the entire line to Wolverhampton completed on November 12 of the same year. The original estimate for the bridge's construction was £80,000, and it was formerly numbered 4 on the Shrewsbury-Wellington Line.