Railway Bridges with Footpaths

[table38]

(No idea where Ethelfleda Bridge is though!)

I bet you do, but like me didn't know it had a fancy name See http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/e/ethelfleda_bridge/index.shtml

 

[p123]

At Perth (Scotland, not down under!) the bridge to the east of the station - going from Perth towards Dundee across the river - can be walked across.

Apologies, I cannot remember the name of this bridge. Interesting in that it's single track on the bridge then double within the station and along the main line to Dundee.

 

[Michael.Y]

Can one walk over the Britannia Bridge? I'm sure I've seen people before now besides the train as we trundle over....

 

[Donny Dave]

Keadby Bridge (by Althorpe station) carries the Scunthorpe - Doncaster line, the A18 and a footpath.

 

[Green Lane]

Hawarden Bridge over the River Dee

Co-incidentally I walked over it yesterday during a trip to Hawarden Bridge station. It wasn't the best weather ever for photos, but just as I approached the bridge, a freight train passed me.

 

[Clip]

Co-incidentally I walked over it yesterday during a trip to Hawarden Bridge station. It wasn't the best weather ever for photos, but just as I approached the bridge, a fright train passed me.

Did it scare you

 

[Green Lane]

Did it scare you

Haha, that's quite funny, thanks for pointing it out - the one typo which was guaranteed not to be picked up by the spell-checker.

As for the train, well fortunately, I was forewarned due to sounding of the horn. If I'd known it was coming earlier though, I might have stayed on the platforms at Hawarden Bridge station a couple of minutes longer for some potentially better shots, but alas, it wasn't to be.

 

[MK Tom]

If anyone feels like counting preserved railways, then don't forget the entire Avon Valley and Northampton and Lamport railways have footpaths running on the other track's formation. Three bridges under the line on the currently operating section of the NLR.

 

[4SRKT]

At Perth (Scotland, not down under!) the bridge to the east of the station - going from Perth towards Dundee across the river - can be walked across.

Apologies, I cannot remember the name of this bridge. Interesting in that it's single track on the bridge then double within the station and along the main line to Dundee.

It's also single track from the immediate east end of the Dundee platforms over that long elevated section across the south side of the town centre leading to the bridge. The city centre is a sort of grid layout and this is not broken up at all by the railway which crosses 6 consecutive north-south streets at right angles within half a mile. It's a very interesting stretch of railway.

 

[calc7]

Hungerford Bridge(s) over the Thames

 

[4SRKT]

You can now walk over the bridge carrying the railway over the River Lagan in Belfast, now that the grim bombed out wasteland has been transformed in a waterfront yuppie paradise.

 

[Clip]

Do you know of any other operational rail bridges which have a footpath along them ? (apart from the obvious Central London ones across the Thames)

Im sturggling to think which ones? As Calc7 has said the Hungerford bridges yes but they are not rail bridges with footpaths accross them more just 2 extra bridges built alongside.

 

[CheapAndNerdy]

Im sturggling to think which ones? As Calc7 has said the Hungerford bridges yes but they are not rail bridges with footpaths accross them more just 2 extra bridges built alongside.

Outside of central London there is the district line rail bridge at Putney, also Barnes railway bridge.

 

[142094]

High Level Bridge - of course the footbridge is below the railway deck, not alongside.

 

[General Zod]

Bourne End bridge across the Thames in Bucks. You literally walk side-by-side with the train.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/petereed/116488547/

 

[class156]

The bridge over the river Ayr just outside of Ayr Station has a footpath on one side of the bridge.

 

[starrymarkb]

Im sturggling to think which ones? As Calc7 has said the Hungerford bridges yes but they are not rail bridges with footpaths accross them more just 2 extra bridges built alongside.

Actually the path used to be on the rail bridge itself but from what I can remember it was pretty narrow, the Jubliee bridges were built about 10 years ago to improve things for pedestrians

 

[reb0118]

The viaduct between Culrain & Invershin. The attachted photo comes from the railscot website.

 

[lyndhurst25]

The River Mite viaduct at Ravenglass has a path alongside (and a ford too if you prefer to get your feet wet).

 

[yorkie]

I think it makes sense on this occasion to merge the threads, so I have done that.

If anyone feels like counting preserved railways, then don't forget the entire Avon Valley and Northampton and Lamport railways have footpaths running on the other track's formation. Three bridges under the line on the currently operating section of the NLR.

Indeed I can confirm the entire (!) Northampton & Lamport, that is all few dozen metres of it, are part of a path that runs between Wellingbrough & Northampton on a disused line. When we cycled the route, I'd estimate we were alongside that railway for about 0.01% of our journey.

on Peak Rail across the Derwent just beyond Matlock former Riverside station

Also Rowsley South to Darley Dale.

 

[6Gman]

Surprised nobody's mentioned Whatcroft Bridge !



Between Middlewich and Northwich the railway crosses a minor road and the Trent & Mersey canal on a single bridge. The down track is still in place; the up trackbed is now a footpath linking the lane to the canal towpath.

Neither is used much!

 

[Helvellyn]

If you visit this site and scroll to the bottom of the page you can see construction of the railway bridge to carry the West Coast Mainline just South of Penrith. The bridge is actually two adjacent structures. The first is a two-track bridge for the two Main Lines, and the second is a single track bridge for the Down Loop, plus a footpath. On the photo at the bottom of the page you can see the lip on the left of the smaller single-track bridge that carries the footpath.

 

[table38]

Surprised nobody's mentioned Whatcroft Bridge !

Neither is used much!

Well, not by pedestrians perhaps... I've got a colleague who lives down there and it is a source of continual amusement to us what happens when you put "whatcroft hall lane railway bridge cheshire" into google

 

[Midlandman]

The Hohenzollern Bridge outside Cologne Station. Continuous action of all kinds, from ICE expresses to local commuter trains plus the shipping on the Rhine below.

Also in western Germany, on the direct line from Trier to Cologne, a scenic part near Bitburg has had its track singled and a cycling/walking trail has been put alongside the line including through a couple of tunnels. (There is, or was, a cab view video on Youtube where you could clearly see the footpath lights off to one side as the train went through).

 

[JGR]

My local station back in the day, Chatou-Croissy, runs directly onto a rail bridge over the Seine with a fairly wide footpath alongside.
If memory serves, they seem to be much more common on the mainland than in the UK.

 

[6Gman]

Well, not by pedestrians perhaps... I've got a colleague who lives down there and it is a source of continual amusement to us what happens when you put "whatcroft hall lane railway bridge cheshire" into google

Oh Lord !

Mind you, that ... er ... action ... seems to be in the lay-by rather than the bridge itself!

 

[Parham Wood]

There is a footpath alongside the Westbury to Warminster line where it crosses the Westbury avoiding line. Was a good place for spotting particularly on a summer Saturday.

 

[Bungle73]

Im sturggling to think which ones? As Calc7 has said the Hungerford bridges yes but they are not rail bridges with footpaths accross them more just 2 extra bridges built alongside.

But they do use the same foundation piers though. Incidentally only the railway bridge is Hungerford Bridge (named after Hungerford Market, which used to be where Charing Cross station is btw), the two pedestrian bridges are the Golden Jubilee Bridges.

Incidently the original Hungerford Bridge was actually a suspension footbridge, designed by IKB. When it was replaced the chains were used for the Clifton Suspension Bridge.