British Rail Midland Region London Rugby Line Bridge Number 113 is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 May 1986. Bridge.
British Rail Midland Region London Rugby Line Bridge Number 113
- WRENN ID
- gentle-sill-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 May 1986
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- British Rail Midland Region London Rugby Line Bridge Number 113, Tring
- OS grid reference
- SP 948 126
- Coordinates
- 51.80417, -0.62633
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bridge Number 113 is an accommodation bridge over the railway at Tring Cutting, built around 1837 by Robert Stephenson for the London and Birmingham Railway Company. The bridge is constructed of brown brick and features stone impost bands, skewbacks, a cornice, and parapet copings. It has a long, narrow design with three arches that connect land divided by the extensive Tring Cutting, which is approximately 2½ miles long and about 50 feet deep at this location.
The central arch is a higher seven-ring segmental arch that spans the trackbed, supported by slender rectangular piers at the base of the earth slopes on either side. Each pier has a tall opening with a round-arched head and bottom. The side arches are slightly lower segmental seven-ring arches that lead to abutments buried in the earth slope. At roadway level, there is a wide unmoulded stone cornice, brick parapets, rectangular terminal piers, and weathered stone copings.
The cutting was created to accommodate Stephenson's decision to maintain a maximum gradient of 1 in 330 on the railway line, which was opened on April 9, 1838. A well-known lithograph by J.C. Bourne depicts the army of navvies who excavated the cutting. The south side of the bridge is located in Aldbury parish.
Local climate
British Rail Midland Region London Rugby Line Bridge Number 113 sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% 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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