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Latitude: 51.5397 / 51°32'23"N
Longitude: -3.6083 / 3°36'29"W
OS Eastings: 288558
OS Northings: 183541
OS Grid: SS885835
Mapcode National: GBR HC.G73F
Mapcode Global: VH5HB.DKTH
Plus Code: 9C3RG9QR+VM
Entry Name: Former Bridgend Tramroad bridge over Nant Cynffig
Listing Date: 1 April 1996
Last Amended: 13 November 1997
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 16839
Building Class: Transport
ID on this website: 300016839
Location: Located in the Nant Cynffig on a footpath leading N from Fountain Road, which crosses a railway line to Parc Slip Nature Park. The railway is immediately N of the bridge.
County: Bridgend
Community: Newcastle Higher (Y Castellnewydd)
Community: Newcastle Higher
Locality: Fountain
Traditional County: Glamorgan
Tagged with: Tram bridge
Built to carry the Bridgend Railway, a horse-drawn railway built between 1827 and 1830 between Bridgend and the Dyffryn Llynfi and Porthcawl Railway, which in turn linked the area with the harbour at Porthcawl. The engineer for the railway was John Hodgkinson, who began as principal assistant to Benjamin Outram and became a leading early railway engineer in his own right, responsible for several important lines in South Wales and the Midlands. The railway opened in 1830 and was absorbed into the South Wales Railway in 1861 but abandoned by 1864.
Single-arched bridge of coursed rubble sandstone, which has a round arch with tooled voussoirs and quoins. The abutments are swept out slightly. Above the arch is a shallow string course. Originally there was no parapet, but timber posts and iron rails have been added.
A rare example of an early railway bridge and an important component of the early industrial history of the district.
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