Railway Bridge, Approximately 100 Metres South East of Backs Bridge, Pelsall Road Wyrley and Essington Canal is a Grade II listed building in the Walsall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1996. Bridge.
Railway Bridge, Approximately 100 Metres South East of Backs Bridge, Pelsall Road Wyrley and Essington Canal
- WRENN ID
- fallow-string-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Walsall
- Constituency
- Aldridge-Brownhills MP: Wendy Morton (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1996
- Type
- Bridge
- OS grid reference
- SK 039 052
- Coordinates
- 52.64472, -1.94366
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The railway bridge over the Wyrley and Essington Canal, built around 1856, features cast iron construction with Staffordshire blue engineering brick abutments and a sandstone pad. It has a solid panel iron parapet adorned with an interlaced arch pattern in relief, which is cast in panels. The bridge also includes moulded iron parapet coping and stone-capped brick pilasters. The design of the parapet is identical to that of two aqueducts that carry the Wyrley and Essington Canal over the South Staffordshire Railway, both of which were also constructed in 1856 by Lloyds Foster and Co. of Wednesbury.
Local climate
Railway Bridge, Approximately 100 Metres South East of Backs Bridge, Pelsall Road Wyrley and Essington Canal receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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