Former Railway Bridge over Montgomeryshire Canal is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 11 March 1981. Bridge.
Former Railway Bridge over Montgomeryshire Canal
- WRENN ID
- ancient-fireplace-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 11 March 1981
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Former Railway Bridge over Montgomeryshire Canal, Welshpool
- OS grid reference
- SJ 227 074
- Coordinates
- 52.65934, -3.14409
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The former railway bridge over the Montgomeryshire Canal was built to carry the Welshpool and Llanfair Railway over the canal. The railway was established by the Welshpool and Llanfair Caereinion Railway Company in 1898 and opened in 1903. It was taken over by the Great Western Railway in 1921 and closed by British Rail in 1956.
The bridge features stone abutments with rusticated terminal piers on the eastern side and rough rubble on the western side. It supports cast-iron girders that carry a road-bed made from sleepers. This bridge is a unique surviving relic of the light railway as it runs through the town and is part of a group of structures associated with the canal.
Local climate
Former Railway Bridge over Montgomeryshire Canal receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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