Former railway overbridge, Drumbane Road, Gortaclare, Dungiven, Co Londonderry

A single arch stone built former railway overbridge. A well built sandstone bridge with shallow segmented arch springing from high vertical walls. The parapet lengths are short, only 7 metres and returned at each end with dropped vertical faces to the level of the carriageway and then sloping at 45º to form long buttresses on both sides of the bridge and railway cutting. The bold voissoirs are rockfaced with tooled margins. The stonework of bridge and buttresses is well and sturdily built with rockface and partly snecked. That on the supporting walls is coursed with fine joints. While the supporting walls of the arch have straight vertical faces, that of the buttresses are battered. The parapet wall, 1.2 metres high has a hogsback concrete coping and the width between them is 6½ metres. The permanent way is intact with side drains and not overgrown. The sleepers and rails are gone. The Drumbane Road is narrow and rises to pass over the railway. Hedges are high so that the structure of the bridge is almost unseen.