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Description: Railway Bridge

Address: Railway Bridge Fall Lane Sowerby Bridge West Yorkshire

Grade: II

Group detail: Fall Lane

Full description:
Railway bridge. c1840 parapet rebuilt. By George Stephenson. For the Manchester and Leeds Railway Company. Rock-faced stone. The bridge rises to the southern bank. 3 tall segmental arches with voussoirs aligned to courses. Stepped canted pilaster buttresses. Ashlar band and tooled cyma section band below parapet which has flat ashlar coping and pyramidal capstones above buttresses. At south end parapet continues as ramped wall. At north end parapet continues as wall terminating in pier as buttresses. The first part of the Manchester to Leeds Railway was opened as far as Sowerby Bridge in 1840; the section to Leeds was opened subsequently. Sowerby Bridge, Chamber of Trade and Commerce Official Tourist Guide.