Railway Bridge At Chance'S Glassworks (Approximately 160 Metres West Of Spon Lane South) Birmingham Canal Birmingham Level is a Grade II listed building in the Sandwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 July 1978. Bridge.
Railway Bridge At Chance'S Glassworks (Approximately 160 Metres West Of Spon Lane South) Birmingham Canal Birmingham Level
- WRENN ID
- moated-moat-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sandwell
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 July 1978
- Type
- Bridge
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SANDWELL MB BIRMINGHAM CANAL SP 08 NW Birmingham Level, Smethwick 9/12 Railway Bridge at Chance's Glassworks 21.7.78 (approx 160m west of Spon Lane South) GV II
Railway bridge. Mid-C19. Brick and iron with some sandstone dressings. North side spanned by cast iron I-beam. Parapet has coping and octagonal end piers of stone, and iron railings. Deck of bridge formed by wrought- iron or steel joists carrying brick arches. South side now blocked. Adjoins Canal Bridge (qv) and spans a roadway which formerly linked the northern and southern parts of Chance's Glassworks site. The Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Stour Valley Railway was opened in 1852, although the first locomotive ran on the line in 1849 (VCH, p 98).
Listing NGR: SP0050889703
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