Description

HAYLE WEST TERRACE, Hayle
SW 5437-5537
10/261 Bridge over railway line and
- safety ramp

GV II
Bridge for cart track over railway line and adjoining safety drag ramp. Built circa 1852 for the West Cornwall Railway. Rock-faced granite brought to course with rock-faced granite dressings. Iron girders carry a wooden road with gravel surface. Single-span bridge through an embankment with battered abutments. Branching from former safety points at one side and sloping up to the
embankment is a presumably sand-filled (overgrown) ramp designed to decelerate any train that went out of control down the line heading for the swing bridge
q.v. The abutments of the bridge have stone parapets with copings ; the bridge itself has a cross-braced wooden parapet.
This safety ramp is considered to be the first example of its kind in England.
Source: Information provided by Brian Sullivan.

Listing NGR: SW5583937545

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26436487

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)