Tubular Railway Bridge is a Grade I listed building in the local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 23 September 1950. Church.

Tubular Railway Bridge

WRENN ID
iron-cupola-birch
Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
Constituency
Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
23 September 1950
Type
Church
Address
Tubular Railway Bridge, Afon Conwy, Conwy
OS grid reference
SH 784 774
Coordinates
53.28023, -3.82378
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Tubular Railway Bridge is a Grade I listed structure featuring ashlar rectangular castellated towers that were originally designed to support the chains of a suspension bridge. It includes blind arrow loops and an embattled parapet supported by corbelled machicolations. The lower round turrets at the outer corners are adorned with a Lombard frieze along the parapet, while smaller corbelled round turrets at the inner corners also feature a Lombard frieze leading to conical caps. The outer sides of the bridge display a pair of round-headed arches with a continuous chamfer, and the inner sides have vents fitted with latticework iron grilles positioned above the girders.

The bridge has a double-track deck, with each track supported by its own tubular girder construction, and it includes a travelling crane. At each end, there are two round concrete-filled cast-iron piers that were added in 1899. The approach on the east side features a rock-faced coped wall leading to a polygonal terminal pier, while the northeast side has a later, simpler wall.

Local climate

Tubular Railway Bridge sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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