Milford Road Bridge, HUL 3/6

Single-span railway under-bridge, designed to carry the Leeds and Selby Railway over Milford Road, constructed between 1830-34 to a design by Walker and Burgess.

MATERIALS: squared and coursed Magnesian limestone, brick arch, and gritstone parapet walls.

PLAN: single-span skew bridge with a track-bed of sufficient width to accommodate four tracks.

One of a sequence of railway bridges built for the Leeds and Selby Railway. An arch of red engineering brick with exposed ends springs from tooled ashlar impost bands. The abutments and the spandrels are built of coursed quarry-faced Magnesium limestone. The raked and angled wing walls that retain the embankments are built of quarry-faced limestone with ashlar coping. The gritstone parapets walls are raised on projecting tooled ashlar string courses and terminate in rounded piers. The parapets have deeply incised horizontal tooling, similar examples of which can be seen on other bridges on the Leeds and Selby Railway.