Long or high railway bridges you can walk over

[aavm]

Which long or high or interesting bridges/viaducts can you walk over?

Any more?

UK Rail bridges and viaducts you can walk over - Tourist Guide - SWC

rail bridge and viaducts to walk over

www.walkingclub.org.uk

Almondell Viaduct, West Lothian aka: Camps Viaduct
Alston Arches, Northumberland aka: Haltwhistle Viaduct
Appersett Viaduct, North Yorkshire
Aurs Burn Viaduct, Renfrewshire
Avenham Viaduct, Lancashire
Avon Aqueduct, West Lothian [aqueduct]
Balderstone Viaduct, Durham aka: Balder Viaduct
Barmouth Bridge, Gwynedd
Barnes Railway Bridge, London
Bennerley Viaduct, Derbyshire
Bickleigh Bridge, Devon
Big Water of Fleet Viaduct, Dumfries and Galloway
Blackfriars Rail Bridge and Station, London
Bollington Viaduct, Cheshire
Bourne End Railway Bridge, Buckinghamshire
Buckingham Railway Viaduct, Buckinghamshire
Cann Viaduct, Devon
Carlisle Bridge, Lancaster
Castlefield Viaduct, Manchester
Causey Arch, Durham
Cawledge Viaduct, Northumberland
Cefn-Coed Viaduct, Merthyr Tydfil
Chirk Aqueduct, Wrexham [aqueduct]
Conisbrough Viaduct, South Yorkshire
Connel Bridge, Argyll and Bute
Corby Bridge, Cumbria aka: Wetheral Viaduct
Cullen Viaducts, Moray
Cwm Prysor Viaduct, Snowdonia
Daisyfield Viaduct, Lancashire
Darcy Lever Viaduct and Burnden Viaduct, Bolton
Dee Railway Bridge - Chester, Chester
Divie Viaduct, Moray aka: Edinkillie Viaduct
Drury Dam Viaduct, Nottinghamshire
Edinchip Viaduct - 1, Perthshire aka: Kendrum Burn Viaduct
Edinchip Viaduct - 2, Perthshire
Fledborough Viaduct, Nottinghamshire
Forth Rail Bridge, Edinburgh [no access, yet]
Fulham Rail Bridge, London aka: Putney Rail Bridge
Garndiffaith Viaduct, Torfaen aka: Talywain Viaduct
Glen Ogle Viaduct, Stirling
Glenfinnan Viaduct, Highland [no access]
Ham Green Viaduct, Devon
Ham Wood Viaduct, Somerset
Hawarden Bridge, Deeside
Headstone Viaduct, Derbyshire
Healey Dell Viaduct, Manchester
Helmdon Viaduct, Northamptonshire
Hengoed Viaduct, Caerphilly
Hewenden Viaduct, West Yorkshire
High Level Bridge - Newcastle, Tyneside
Hockley Viaduct, Hampshire
Holbeck Viaduct, Leeds [no access, yet]
Hownsgill Viaduct, Durham
Hungerford Bridge, London aka: Charing Cross Rail Bridge, Golden Jubilee Bridge
Keadby Bridge, Lincolnshire aka: King George V Bridge
Kielder Viaduct, Northumberland
Kings Mill Viaduct, Nottinghamshire
Kingsferry Bridge, Kent
Lady Bay Bridge, Nottingham
Laight Milton Viaduct, East Ayrshire,
Lake Viaduct, Devon
Lambley Viaduct, Northumberland
Larpool Viaduct, North Yorkshire
Little Petherick Creek Railway Bridge, Cornwall
Lochearnhead Viaduct, Perthshire
Lock Ken Viaduct, Dumfries and Galloway [no access]
Lockhaugh Railway Viaduct, Durham aka: 9 Arches Viaduct, Rowlands Gill Viaduct
Logierait Viaduct, Perth and Kinross
Maidstone River Medway Footbridge, Kent
Mann Dam Viaduct, West Yorkshire
Martholme Viaduct, Lancashire
Meldon Viaduct, Devon
Midford Viaduct, Somerset
Millers Dale Viaduct, Derbyshire
Monks Bridge Viaduct, Leeds [partially open]
Neidpath Viaduct, Scottish Borders
Newton Cap Viaduct, Durham
North Water Viaduct, Angus
Outwood Viaduct, Manchester
Pensford, Somerset [no access]
Podgill and Merrygill Viaducts, Cumbria
Pont Briwet Bridge, Gwynedd
Pontburn Viaduct and Foegoesburn Viaduct, Durham
Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, Wrexham [aqueduct]
Pontrhydyfen Aqueduct, West Glamorgan [aqueduct]
Pontrhydyfen Viaduct, West Glamorgan
Pontsarn Viaduct, Merthyr Tydfil
Queen Alexandra Bridge, Wearside
Riverford Viaduct, Devon
Rowlands Gill Viaduct, Durham
Royate Hill Viaduct, Bristol
Sankey Viaduct, Cheshire [no access] aka: 9 Arches Viaduct
Scalby Viaduct, North Yorkshire
Scarborough Bridge, North Yorkshire
Shin Bridge, Highland aka: Invershin Viaduct, Oykel Viaduct
Slapewath Viaduct, North Yorkshire aka: Waterfall Viaduct
Smardale Gill Viaduct, Cumbria
Spey Viaduct, Moray
Tadcaster Viaduct aka: Virgin Viaduct
Tavistok Viaduct, Devon
Tay Viaduct, Perth and Kinross
Thornton Viaduct, West Yorkshire
Torksey Viaduct, Lincolnshire
Treffry Viaduct, Cornwall
Tregarth Bridge, Powys
Trent Viaduct - Melbourne, Derbyshire
Tucking Mill Viaduct, Somerset
Wansford Rail Bridge, Peterborough
Warrington Railway Bridge, Cheshire
West Vale Viaduct, West Yorkshire
Westfield Viaduct, West Lothian [Not yet open] aka: Avon Viaduct
Wharfe Bridge, North Yorkshire
Wilford Toll Bridge, Nottinghamshire aka: Halfpenny Bridge
Wylam Bridge, Northumberland aka: Hagg Bank Bridge

 

[mailbyrail]

Which long or high bridges/viaducts can you walk over?

Estuary bridges:
Barmouth Estuary Bridge in mid Wales (recommended)
Pont Briwet Bridge, North Wales (the original wooden bridge was lost during the construction of its replacement, now a road - rail bridge)

Viaducts: This page lists 10 *disused* viaducts : https://industrialtour.co.uk/blog/top-10-accessible-railway-viaducts-uk/
Bennerley (Notts.)
Cefn-Coed (South Wales)
Conisbrough (near Doncaster)
Cullen (NE Scotland)
Cwm Prysor (Snowdonia)
Larpool (Whitby)
Logierait (nr Perth)
Monsal (Peak District) - and the Monsal line path
Pensford (nr Bristol)
Thornton (nr Bradford)

Also:
Hockley Viaduct, Winchester (disused)

And, in London (neither long or high, but interesting):
Putney (District Line), Hungerford (Charing Cross), Blackfriars Bridge Station, Barnes Bridge

There is (was?) a Feb-22 plan to have a "visitor experience" walk over the Forth Bridge nr Edinburgh.

Any more?
Thanks.

Invershin to Culrain - is it called Invershin Bridge?

 

[steamybrian]

Maidstone East= bridge over River Medway. It carries footpath between Maidstone East and Barracks station

 

[Nottingham59]

Lady Bay bridge in Nottingham. Now a busy road with an exterior footpath cantilevered off the side, which gives you a really close-up view of how bridges like these were put together.

 

[2392]

I've been over Larpool Viaduct on the approach to Whitby. The one thing that really struck me and isn't obvious when you look at the viaduct from below from the train [on the Esk Valley], is that there's quite a rise/gradient across from one side of the Esk Valley to the other.

 

[aavm]

Invershin to Culrain - is it called Invershin Bridge?

That's a great one. Shin Bridge, according to google maps. Something about the photo ...

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[Pinus contorta]

You can cross the River Lune via the Carlisle Bridge at Lancaster. Don't know if that fits your criteria.

 

[sprinterguy]

Crossing Nine Arches Viaduct near Rowlands Gill in Gateshead always feels quite dramatic to me.

I'm particularly fond of the Glen Ogle viaduct on the old Callander & Oban route.

 

[CarltonA]

Buckingham has a fairly high ex railway viaduct going through the town which is open to walkers.

 

[The Middle]

Throw in the Hownsgill viaduct in County Durham

 

[Pacef8]

Nant prysor near bala

Nant Prysor Aquaduct

From what we know the line closed in 1961 and ran from Trawnswfndd and finished at bala. It is now seperated by the lyne celyn lake so any future plan of re-opening and joining up with ffestinog will have to go a different direction at this point. The line is a serious major engineering wonder...

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Plus try here

Rail Map online - historic transport maps

Past and present railways, railroads, canals, waggonways, tramways, stations, metro and narrow gauge lines displayed on an interactive Google Map.

www.railmaponline.com

 

[Cheshire Scot]

Connel Bridge which used to take road and rail, now just road.

There must be a few on the Waverley route (south of Tweedbank), and on the former GNSR coast route in Moray. .

 

[bramling]

Which long or high bridges/viaducts can you walk over?

Estuary bridges:
Barmouth Estuary Bridge in mid Wales (recommended)
Pont Briwet Bridge, North Wales (the original wooden bridge was lost during the construction of its replacement, now a road - rail bridge)

Viaducts: This page lists 10 *disused* viaducts : https://industrialtour.co.uk/blog/top-10-accessible-railway-viaducts-uk/
Bennerley (Notts.)
Cefn-Coed (South Wales)
Conisbrough (near Doncaster)
Cullen (NE Scotland)
Cwm Prysor (Snowdonia)
Larpool (Whitby)
Logierait (nr Perth)
Monsal (Peak District) - and the Monsal line path
Pensford (nr Bristol)
Thornton (nr Bradford)

Small point of detail, however Pensford isn’t accessible - it’s palisaded at both ends. Very occasionally this might be found vandalised allowing access, though ISTR one end is reached through someone’s garden.

 

[Railsigns]

Shin Bridge, according to google maps.

Also known as Oykel Viaduct.

The Tay Viaduct east of Perth station has a public footpath along its north side.

 

[endecotp]

Did the Glen Esk viaduct, North of Eskbank, retain a path when the borders railway reopened?

There are other disused viaducts in Midlothian, towards Penicuik.

I've seen a YouTube video of someone exploring the disused Latchford viaduct over the Manchester Ship Canal; it is fenced off and has some holes to avoid.

 

[Pinus contorta]

Can you walk along Runcorn rail bridge across to widnes? It's 30 years or more since I went along there. Can't remember.

 

[Nottingham59]

Probably out of scope, but canal viaducts have a footpath too.

Aqueducts

The idea of a 'canal in the sky' was ridiculed initially both by engineering sceptics and the canal builders themselves. Despite this, dozens of canal aqueducts have survived to become among the most inspiring of our waterway landmarks.

canalrivertrust.org.uk

The two great aqueducts of today, Edstone in England and Pontcysyllte in Wales, were both constructed using cast iron water troughs. Chirk was a masonry structure lined with cast iron plates. the primeval iron aqueduct still survives at Longdon on Tern in Shropshire.

 

[cuccir]

Smardalegill Viaduct is disused, a great one to walk over in the Cumbrian part of the Yorkshire Dales: https://www.visitcumbria.com/evnp/smardale-gill-old-viaduct/

 

[Ken H]

You can cross the River Lune via the Carlisle Bridge at Lancaster. Don't know if that fits your criteria.

Also in Lancaster the main Lancaster Morecambe road eastbound over the river is the old Green Ayre - Morecambe rail route

Park in Newbiggin on Lune.

Between Deutz and Koln Hauptbanhoff

is the path on the west side of Hungerford Bridge out of Charing X still there?

 

[a_c_skinner]

The Runcorn rail bridge (Ethelfleda Bridge, a name I never heard used when I lived there) had a walkway which became redundant when the road bridge replaced the transporter bridge. Wiki says "The footway was closed to pedestrians in 1965 but remains intact for access by railway personnel and carries an 11 kV electrical cable between Widnes and Runcorn." A friend of ours carried a small motorcycle over it having missed a transporter bridge crossing.

 

[Cheshire Scot]

Invershin to Culrain - is it called Invershin Bridge?

That's a great one. Shin Bridge, according to google maps.

Way before the footpath was added (2000?) back in the '60s you could apply to BR for a permit to walk across the bridge, shame I don't have a copy, no doubt plenty of caveats about own risk, keep as sharp lookout etc, whilst the passenger timetable was a guide to when trains could be expected there was also freight to take into account.

 

[Sir Felix Pole]

Meldon Viaduct near Okehampton, an impressive 120ft high, is available to walkers and cyclists as part of the 'Granite Way'.

 

[AlterEgo]

Maidstone East= bridge over River Medway. It carries footpath between Maidstone East and Barracks station

It’s not really long or high though is it?

 

[endecotp]

It's a shame you can't walk over the Ingleton viaduct (can you??); that would be quite scenic.

 

[AndrewP]

What about the High Level bridge in Newcastle?

 

[AlterEgo]

What about the High Level bridge in Newcastle?

Yes you can walk that - and quite convenient it is too!

 

[Cheshire Scot]

It's a shame you can't walk over the Ingleton viaduct (can you??); that would be quite scenic.

Fenced off at both ends last time I was there - high fence!(!).

 

[bramling]

Fenced off at both ends last time I was there - high fence!(!).

ISTR there was a plan to open it, but for some reason the locals didn’t want it. Possible because, for some reason, Ingleton seems to get a certain amount of antisocial behaviour.

 

[DavidSM]

Smardalegill Viaduct is disused, a great one to walk over in the Cumbrian part of the Yorkshire Dales: https://www.visitcumbria.com/evnp/smardale-gill-old-viaduct/

Yes a very interesting viaduct and a nice walk. Along the old track bed and passing under the S&C tracked as well
during the summer there are a large number of a certain species of butterfly found in the vicinity of the viaduct Rather interesting to see.

 

[Magdalia]

Glen Ogle Viaduct.

Nene Valley Railway bridge over the River Nene at Wansford.