Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
16725
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
11/03/1981
Date of Amendment
29/02/1996
Name of Property
Former Railway Bridge over Montgomeryshire Canal
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Welshpool
Town
Locality
Welshpool
Easting
322713
Northing
307459
Street Side
N
Location
Immediately N of the Lledan Aqueduct, carrying a footpath over the canal.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
Exterior
History: The bridge was built to carry the Welshpool and Llanfair Railway over the canal. The Welshpool and Llanfair Caereinion Railway Company was formed in 1898, and the railway opened in 1903. It was taken over by the Great Western Railway in 1921, and closed by British Rail in 1956.
Description: Stone abutments with rusticated terminal piers at E side and rough rubble to W, support cast-iron girders carrying road-bed (formed from sleepers).
A unique surviving relic of the light railway in its length through the town, the bridge also forms part of a group of structures associated with the canal.
References: Eva Bredsdorff, Welshpool in Old Photographs, 1993, p.84;
Ralph Cartwright and R.T.Russell, The Welshpool and Llanfair Railway, 1972.
Interior
Reason for designation
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