Photographed, whilst waiting for;
https://www.railwaytouring.net/uk-day-trips/the-waverley-1
Old Great North Road
Micklefield
The village wasn't bypassed, until into the 60's, so all the north-bound traffic passed under this bridge, as it did innumerable other towns/villages on the
GNR route
The bridge carries the (
North Eastern Railway, as was) between Leeds & York
Immediately east of the station (quite literally a couple of dozen yards), there's a junction
North-east for York
South-east for Selby
Looking south
https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101419087-old-north-road-bridge-hul413-micklefield#.XU_lmndFzIU
From the southern side;
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3070295
Housing, at the Station
Presumably the original Station buildings, but shown on the
'British Listed Buildings' link as warehousing; dual purpose?!
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5333939
Downstairs had a new window, & there's solar panels on the roof...….
And from the access road, to the Selby/York platform & car-park
EDIT @ 15:05
Built 1830 - 1834;
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1419087
One reason given is;
Engineer: designed by James Walker, a renowned C19 engineer, who constructed the line with a four-track bed and distinctive, single-span overbridges with unprecedented spans of 60ft (18.2m) rather than the standard 30ft (9.1m) span and twin-span bridges used by other early and later railway engineers
Plus, it's endured almost 200 years of vastly increased rail-traffic, at much higher speeds/weights than could have ever been envisaged by the engineers/architects
And..... the road traffic on the
Great North Road too!
Granted, Micklefield was bypassed before even 32 tons was allowed on British roads, but 20 tons of loaded wagon, constant road-traffic,
and, the 'indivisible loads' of 100 tons (or more??) passing under it, & shaking the foundations
Four years to design & build!?!?!
Nowadays, the public enquiry & planning procedures would take as long!
