Bridge Carrying Railway Over North End Of Road

About

Abbots Langley railway bridge, also known as the bridge over Railway Terrace is a skew bridge carrying the West Coast Main Line over a road near Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire, in Eastern England (just north-west of London). The angle of the bridge creates a 25-metre (82-foot) tunnel along the road. It was built in 1837 and is a Grade II listed building.

Design: The bridge is a single semi-circular skew arch across Railway Terrace, part of Station Road, at the western edge of Abbots Langley and just south of Kings Langley railway station. It was built to the designs of Robert Stephenson, the chief engineer of the London and Birmingham Railway. It is in red brick, with repairs in blue engineering brick and stone voussoirs (the inside of the arch) on both faces. It has substantial brickwork above the arch and a course of stonework between the arch and the parapet and has splayed abutments which meet substantial curved wing walls, making the arch look disproportionately small. A stone band runs the length of the parapets, which have been largely rebuilt. The angle of the bridge between the abutments creates a 25-metre (82-foot) tunnel through which the road passes.