Bridge over former Vale of Neath Railway is a Grade II listed building in the Neath Port Talbot local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 15 December 2003. Bridge.

Bridge over former Vale of Neath Railway

WRENN ID
hidden-mullion-acorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Neath Port Talbot
Constituency
Neath and Swansea East MP: Carolyn Harris (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
15 December 2003
Type
Bridge
Address
Bridge over former Vale of Neath Railway, Resolven
OS grid reference
SN 830 027
Coordinates
51.71121, -3.69348
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

This is a railway bridge made of coursed squared rubble stone, featuring a broad elliptical arch. The arch is constructed with cut tooled sandstone voussoirs. There is a raised stone string course located under the parapet, which has 20th-century cement copings. The deck of the bridge is made of cement.

Local climate

Bridge over former Vale of Neath Railway sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,340 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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