Bridge Over Railway Line and Safety Ramp is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 January 1988. Bridge. 1 related planning application.
Bridge Over Railway Line and Safety Ramp
- WRENN ID
- dim-merlon-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Camborne and Redruth MP: Perran Moon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 January 1988
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Bridge Over Railway Line and Safety Ramp, West Terrace, Hayle
- OS grid reference
- SW 558 375
- Coordinates
- 50.18747, -5.42187
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The bridge over the railway line and the adjoining safety ramp, located on West Terrace in Hayle, was built around 1852 for the West Cornwall Railway. It is constructed from rock-faced granite with rock-faced granite dressings. The bridge features iron girders that support a wooden road with a gravel surface. It is a single-span bridge that passes through an embankment and has battered abutments. On one side, a ramp, which is presumably sand-filled and overgrown, branches from former safety points and slopes up to the embankment. This ramp was designed to slow down any train that might go out of control towards the swing bridge. The abutments of the bridge are topped with stone parapets and copings, while the bridge itself has a cross-braced wooden parapet. This safety ramp is recognized as the first of its kind in England.
Local climate
Bridge Over Railway Line and Safety Ramp receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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