Building record 408/1/22 - Hellidon Road Bridge, Great Central Railway

Road bridge over the line of the Great Central Railway. Built in the late 19th century.

{1} The Hellidon road bridge is of simple riveted plate-girder construction and joins two raised sections of a small road linking Hellidon to the A361 in a single span. It spans the space taken by the up-line and down-line of the former Great Central Railway and has until recently continued to take modern road traffic. The bridge abutments which tidy the bridge-embankment junction are formed in a manner identical to the portals of the nearby Catesby Tunnel, using Staffordshire Blue engineering brick, the girderbearers, buttresses and finishing piers formed or capped in millstone grit and the walls capped in Staffordshire blue capping bricks. The brick at the outer surface is laid in alternate courses of headers and stretchers, although this may not be mirrored behind the visible face.

<1> Soden I, 2018, Archaeological recording on Catesby Tunnel and other Great Central Railway features at Charwelton, Northamptonshire, 2018 (Report). SNN111370.

Record last edited

Feb 25 2025 8:17PM