Railway Bridge

The railway bridge over New England Road in Brighton was built between 1852 and 1854 as part of a new two-way track serving the Brighton Goods Yard, which was established in the 1840s and is no longer in existence. The ironwork was cast at the Regent Foundry in Brighton. The bridge features a cast-iron design with four segmental arched ribs, each made in three sections, and includes integral open-work spandrel members and a deck edge.

On the western side, there is a moulded cornice with six moulded panels arranged in a diamond pattern, topped by a parapet rail also in a diamond lattice pattern. The eastern side has eight plain panels with a 20th-century timber boarded fence at the parapet level. Each side of the bridge is marked with "Regent Foundry Brighton" at the center of the arch.

The cast-iron structure is supported by moulded stone corbels that rest on Flemish bond brick walls, with square pillars at each corner topped with stone capping that extends above the parapet. The retaining walls on either side feature tooled stone coping and end in brick piers with stone coping. This bridge is one of the earliest surviving railway bridges with cast-iron arches, as most such bridges were replaced following the accident at Norwood Junction in 1891. This bridge likely survived because it never carried passengers and was later reinforced with the addition of three built-up mild steel plate girders.