Talk:Worcester Road Bridge

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I was going to add length and height but can't find them, and anything from the loop specification on its construction and drew a blank there too! Has anyone seen anything in their reading?--Patrick Hearn (talk) 13:14, 26 November 2022 (UTC)

John Marshall's book simply states "Worcester Road is crossed by a brick arch of 30ft span." I can't find anything else in any of the other histories.
There is a picture by David Rostance on Flickr which has a more head on view than the one I took a few years ago from the other side of the bridge. By eyeball measuring off the computer screen, if the span of the arch is 30ft then it looks to be just over 20ft from the roadway to the bottom of the bridge and about 33ft from the roadway to rail level. It's interesting how high the rail level is above the parapet of the bridge. I wonder if it was built like that, or has the line been raised over the years? --Robin (talk) 23:16, 26 November 2022 (UTC)