Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
18920
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
22/09/1997
Date of Amendment
13/07/2004
Name of Property
Railway bridge at Ffridd-carw
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Pentir
Town
Bangor
Locality
Glasinfryn
Easting
258406
Northing
370010
Street Side
E
Location
This bridge is located on a track running E off the Bangor road, approximately 1km N of Glasinfryn village
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
The railway bridge was built c1884 for the new standard gauge Bangor and Bethesda Branch of the London and North-Western Railway, and ran in parallel to the former Penrhyn mineral railway on the opposite bank of the Afon Cegin. It is now disused and the track removed.
Exterior
The bridge carries the single track line on a high embankment over the access to the former Ffridd-carw farm. It has alternate dark red and blue brick courses to abutments, capped with margin-dressed rock-faced stone copings and dressings. The splayed sides fall steeply to coped end piers. The bridge itself consists of two wide compound girders, one under each line, with an arched iron plate spanning between them, the girders supported on corbels. The guard rail each side consists of rivetted angles, forming an open lattice, and angle top member, spanning to coped and weathered abutment piers.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as an interesting example of a simply constructed railway bridge.
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