Railway Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 May 1988. Bridge.
Railway Bridge
- WRENN ID
- deep-clay-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 May 1988
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Railway Bridge, Station Road, Thurston
- OS grid reference
- TL 917 650
- Coordinates
- 52.24996, 0.80783
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The railway bridge, located 50 meters west of Thurston Station, was built in 1846 by Frederick Barnes of Ipswich for the Ipswich, Bury and Norwich Railway. It carries the Ipswich to Bury St Edmunds railway line over Station Road. The bridge is constructed from red and gault brick, with later patching in engineering brick of both red and blue. It features an elliptical arch with vaulting made from skewed (diagonally-set) brickwork. At all four corners, rusticated block quoins of gault brick rise from road level to about 2 meters, supporting a heavy dentilled cornice. Above this cornice, the elliptical brick arch continues, with limestone key-blocks featuring sunk panels at the center of both faces. The bridge has a plain parapet that rises from a deep cornice with brick modillions below. The embankment is supported by curved and slightly battered retaining walls topped with stone copings.
Local climate
Railway Bridge sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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