Railway Bridge beneath Pontypridd Railway Station, Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taff

Coordinates

Latitude: 51.5993 / 51°35'57"N

Longitude: -3.3415 / 3°20'29"W

OS Eastings: 307177

OS Northings: 189789

OS Grid: ST071897

Mapcode National: GBR HQ.BG5X

Mapcode Global: VH6DR.129B

Plus Code: 9C3RHMX5+P9

Entry Name: Railway Bridge beneath Pontypridd Railway Station

Listing Date: 17 July 1990

Last Amended: 26 February 2001

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 13526

Building Class: Transport

ID on this website: 300013526

Location: Directly below the railway station platforms and carrying the railway over High Street.

County: Rhondda Cynon Taff

Town: Pontypridd

Community: Pontypridd

Locality: Graig

Built-Up Area: Pontypridd

Traditional County: Glamorgan

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History

The Taff Vale Railway was the first major locomotive railway in Wales. It was incorporated in 1836, built 1837-40 and opened in 1840-1 from Merthyr Tydfil to Cardiff, primarily to serve the ironworks of Merthyr Tydfil. The chief engineer was Isambard Kingdom Brunel. As branch lines were built to the Cynon and Rhondda valleys later in the C19 mineral traffic, largely coal, increased dramatically, making Pontypridd an important focal point of the S Wales railway network. The bridge was rebuilt in 1899 by R Finch and Co Ltd, Engineers and Iron Founders of Chepstow.

Exterior

A steel girder bridge with distinctive parapets on both sides, which have fluted pilasters and blind elliptical arches with ornamental aprons. A foundry plate is in the centre. The bridge is flanked by 2 tall and broad rock-faced stone end piers with deep freestone cornices. Beneath the bridge the side walls are of white-glazed brick. A change in the cross members beneath the deck on the E side probably indicates the line of the earlier bridge.

Reasons for Listing

Listed as a good example of a plate girder bridge in a prominent location, and for group value with other listed railway items in the centre of Pontypridd.

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Other nearby listed buildings

II Pontypridd Railway Station Main Platform including buildings and canopy
At the S end of the town, entered from the S end of Sardis Road. A high-level station, it is built partly over the S section of High Street.
II Pontypridd Register Office
To the S of and uphill from the railway station, facing Dewi-Saint Hospital.
II The Criterion Public House
Close to the corner with Broadway at the crossroads below the railway station. Set into a row of frontages.
II Eglwys Gymraeg Sardis (Sardis Chapel)
Set back from, and above the road immediately below the N end of the railway station. It is reached up steps in the forecourt wall facing the road.
II National Westminster Bank
On the corner of the junction between Taff Street and Mill Street.
II Railway Bridge over Sardis Road
On the W side of the town centre and immediately S of the skewed viaduct over Mill Street.
II Rhondda Branch Junction Signal Box
To N of the Railway Station within the junction of the railway lines immediately N of Sardis Road and S of the 2 viaducts spanning the River Rhondda.
II Lloyds TSB Bank, Market Square branch
On the S side of the junction of Market Street and Church Street, in the pedestrianised centre of the town.

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Railway Bridge beneath Pontypridd Railway Station

A Grade II Listed Building in Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taff