Railway overbridge is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. Bridge.

Railway overbridge

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Bridge
Address
Railway overbridge, Northbrook Road, Swanage, BH19 1HP
OS grid reference
SZ 026 789
Coordinates
50.60998, -1.96342
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The building is a railway overbridge, constructed in 1885 for the Swanage Railway, likely designed by W R Galbraith. It is made from cut and squared, rock-faced Purbeck stone and features minimal ornamentation. The bridge has a single-span segmental arch with a single row of voussoirs, battered abutments, and a string course. The parapet walls and end piers are topped with rock-faced coping.

Local climate

Railway overbridge receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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