Railway Bridge, Carnagat Rd, Newry, Co Armagh

This bridge carries the main Belfast - Dublin double-track railway over the Carnagat Road. It comprises a single semicircular span in granodiorite throughout. The soffit and abutments are of ashlar. The faces of the blocks comprising the abutments are convex to give a bulbous finish. The quarry-faced voussoirs have tooled margins to the arch intrados and splay out across the spandrels, over which is a rusticated ashlar string course. This is surmounted on each side by a low concrete parapet, affixed to which is a two-bar galvanised metal safety railing. The wing walls are of irregularly-coursed squared rubble. They are coped with rusticated stone and terminate in square piers (with tooled quoins) surmounted by pyramidal caps. A 15ft height warning triangle is affixed to the east face of the bridge.