Railway Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Southwark local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1979. Bridge.

Railway Bridge

WRENN ID
knotted-ledge-mist
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Southwark
Constituency
Bermondsey and Old Southwark MP: Neil Coyle (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 July 1979
Type
Bridge
Address
Railway Bridge, Abbey Street
OS grid reference
TQ 338 794
Coordinates
51.49812, -0.07284
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This railway bridge, built in 1836, was designed by Engineer Colonel Landmann. It features a brick semicircular arch supported by rows of 12 cast-iron Doric columns, which separate the main carriageway from narrower arched footways on each side. The bridge is now part of a larger railway structure. It is significant as one of the two surviving bridges from London's first railway line, the London and Greenwich, which opened to Deptford in 1836.

Local climate

Railway Bridge sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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