Road-over-rail bridge, near 17 Upper Quilly Road, Dromore, Co Down, BT25

This single-span metal girder bridge formerly carried a field accommodation track over the former single-track Lisburn-Banbridge Railway. The abutments are of quarried random rubble blackstone with rusticated and margined quoins and shallow angled buttresses. The span comprises two horizontal lattice girder trusses. Each truss comprises two cross-braced lattice girders of riveted flat bar and angled metal bar. Lengths of railway line are set transversely between the girders’ bottom strings, their ends resting on small cast-iron brackets. Timber pieces set over these transoms support longitudinal timber planks which form the deck. The parapets comprise four-bar tubular steel bars and wire strung between metal uprights. The ends of the parapets continue in quarried random rubble and terminate in out-projecting regularly-coursed blackstone piers embellished with rusticated and margined quoins. The stonework is coped with oversailing chamfered sandstone blocks. There is also a rusticated and margined blackstone string course around the base of the parapets. The deck is now heavily overgrown with ivy and is blocked at its N end by a low concrete wall. The former field access track at the S end of the bridge has been completely removed, making it unusable. The line of the track in the cutting immediately E of the bridge has been infilled, but is still visible at W. There has also been some dumping of debris underneath the span as well. Setting Rural setting adjacent to farm with outbuildings.