Replacing the footbridge at Stockport

[py_megapixel]

Network Rail have posted a video to twitter indicating that they are replacing the footbridge at Stockport station. Stockport station does not have a footbridge.

In fact, there are no footbridges for some distance either side of Stockport, as the railway is built on an embankment with all roads and footpaths passing underneath.

What is going on?

Edit: here is the video https://twitter.com/NetworkRailMAN/status/1264505913681027073

 

[scrapy]

It's the footbridge on the path between Thomson St and King St West immediately South of the station. You have to zoom in close on Google maps to see it otherwise it just looks like an overhead gantry.

 

[swt_passenger]

Isn’t there a footbridge about 100m south of the platforms, where the track isn’t on an embankment, but in a walled cutting? All seems fairly reasonable to me - NR didn’t actually say “station” on the twitter link anyway (Unless it’s been edited?)

 

[py_megapixel]

Oh yes I hadn't spotted that footbridge and I assumed that they meant the station.

 

[edwin_m]

the railway is built on an embankment with all roads and footpaths passing underneath.

The line is in cutting for a mile or so south of Stockport including with several bridges over it.

 

[Leslie Fletcher]

The line is in cutting for a mile or so south of Stockport including with several bridges over it.

... the remains of the tunnel which was there originally. http://www.lnwrs.org.uk/Mystery/index.php?display_base_mystery_mobile=11

 

[plugwash]

as the railway is built on an embankment with all roads and footpaths passing underneath.

No.

The river Mersey and it's associated valley pass through stockport town center from East to West. The railway goes through the town from South to North with the station on the South side of the valley.

To the North of the station the railway goes out onfo a viaduct across the valley, which numerous paths and roads do pass under.

OTOH to the South of the Station the railway goes into a deep cutting passing under first a footbridge between Thompson street and King street west, then a roundabout joining serveral major roads and finally under a bridge carrying Booth street.

 

[Jamesrob637]

Good; the last time I crossed it looked a bit... rotten!