Railway Bridge, Doran’s Hill, Newry, Co Down is a Grade Record Only listed building in the Newry, Mourne and Down local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.
Railway Bridge, Doran’s Hill, Newry, Co Down
- WRENN ID
- silent-cupola-larch
- Grade
- Record Only
- Local Planning Authority
- Newry, Mourne and Down
- Constituency
- Newry and Armagh MP: Dáire Hughes (SF)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Address
- Railway Bridge, Doran’s Hill, Newry, Co Down, Ballinlare
- Irish grid reference
- J 071 255
- Coordinates
- 54.16752, -6.35954
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
This railway bridge carries the main Belfast to Dublin double-track railway across a minor road near Doran’s Hill, Newry. It is a modern rebuild, likely erected in the 1980s to replace the original structure following damage by terrorist activity. The original bridge was designed by Sir John Macneill and built by William Dargan in 1851 for the Dublin & Belfast Junction Railway Company, as noted by W.A. Mc Cutcheon in 'Industrial Archaeology of Northern Ireland'.
The current bridge features a slightly skewed horizontal span of reinforced-concrete girders, supported on reinforced-concrete abutments. The wing walls of the abutments are faced with squared granodiorite rubble laid in irregular courses and finished with rusticated blocks. A two-bar galvanised metal safety rail runs along both sides of the bridge. Height warning signs, measuring 11 feet and 3.4 metres, are affixed to both faces. The bridge is of industrial archaeological interest as it demonstrates the development of railway bridge design, particularly when compared with other structures such as HB16/27/003.
Local climate
Railway Bridge, Doran’s Hill, Newry, Co Down receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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