Railway Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 1986. Bridge.
Railway Bridge
- WRENN ID
- long-corridor-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1986
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Railway Bridge, Tadpole Lane, Purton
- OS grid reference
- SU 109 897
- Coordinates
- 51.60634, -1.84284
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Railway Bridge in Purton, located on Tadpole Lane, was built between 1881 and 1884 for the Swindon and Cheltenham Extension Railway Company, with general contractors Watson, Smith and Watson. This road bridge features an iron girder structure supported by brick abutments. It has five cast-iron girders made by the Phoenix Foundry Company of Derby, which carry brick jack vaults and brick abutments with wing walls topped with deep engineering brick copings. The brick parapet has been replaced, and the abutments were repaired after 1928. This bridge is noted as the best preserved monument of the railway, which became the Midlands and South West Junction Railway in 1884.
Local climate
Railway Bridge receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% 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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