Footbridge at East End of Wetheral Station is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. Footbridge.

Footbridge at East End of Wetheral Station

WRENN ID
slow-steel-plum
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cumberland
Constituency
Carlisle MP: Ms Julie Minns (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Footbridge
OS grid reference
NY 467 546
Coordinates
54.88372, -2.83136
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The footbridge at the east end of Wetheral Station was built in the 1880s for the North Eastern Railway. It features a cast iron frame with a wooden plank walkway and serves as a double-track passenger overbridge, following a standard design for this railway line. The bridge has an L-shape with two flights of steps on each side that connect to an arched walkway. It is supported by four cast columns on either side, with cast arch panels. The wooden steps lead up to the plank walkway, which is accompanied by a wooden handrail and a latticed balustrade. The bridge displays raised cast pattern numbers N1 and Fl on individual panels, and the bridge number 158 is marked on the wooden railings beside it. This structure is listed partly for its group value with the nearby Station Master's House and Corby Bridge.

Local climate

Footbridge at East End of Wetheral Station sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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