Footbridge Immediately West Of Crediton Railway Station Main Range

CREDITON

SX8399 STATION ROAD 672-1/4/154 Footbridge immediately west of 24/08/89 Crediton Railway Station Main Range

GV II

Footbridge over railway line. 1878 (datestone), built for the LSWR. Rock-faced, grey limestone piers with Bathstone dressings; plate girder iron bridge and stair construction, timber steps. Plan: each pier contains a small store room and supports 2 flights of steps up to the bridge; those on the west side with landings, those on the east lead onto the station platforms. The east side of the bridge is unfloored and railed off with cast iron railings. Exterior: The piers have clasping buttresses and parapets with plain coping. Each storeroom has a chamfered doorway on the west side and crank-arched chamfered window on the outer face with a 4-pane sash window. In the parapet above the south window of the south pier there is a chamfered recessed panel with a Shield inscribed "L. & S.W.R.Y. 1878." The flights of steps on the west side of the bridge are supported on 4 cast iron columns fluted capitals. The bridge was formerly roofed over (information from railway worker). Interior: The storerooms are plain with brick barrel-vaulted roofs. Historical Note: The complicated early history of the line, which began in 1838, led to its being known as the 'Vicar of Bray Railway', but eventually the Exeter and Crediton Railway (Act of 1845) was leased to the Bristol and Exeter Railway who converted to broad guage and opened May 12 1851 until the LSWR took over the lease in 1862 (St John Thomas, pp.92-96). An attractive bridge and part of a group of C19 railway buildings of different dates. (A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: St John Thomas, David,: The West Country: PP.92-96).

Listing NGR: SX8392199493