Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Railway bridge at Coed Howel
Pentir, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 22 September 1997
- Locality
- Glasinfryn
- Town
- Bangor
- Community
- Pentir
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.20197, -4.11798
- Cadw reference
- 18919
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1896 "Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Located on a minor road leading E off the road from Glasinfryn to Bangor.
History
The railway bridge was built c1884 for the new standard gauge Bangor and Bethesda branch of the London and North-Western Railway, to replace the former Penrhyn mineral railway on the opposite bank of the Afon Cegin. It is now disused and the track removed.
Exterior
The bridge carries a single track line on high embankments, over the access to Coed Howel. It has closely jointed and coursed slate abutments, capped with margin-dressed rock-faced stone copings and dressings. The splayed sides fall steeply to coped end piers. The bridge itself consists of two wide compound girders, one under each line, with an arched iron plate spanning between them, the girders supported on corbels. The guard rail each side consists of rivetted angles forming an open lattice, and angle top member, spanning to coped and weathered end abutment piers.
Reason for designation
Included as an interesting example of a simply constructed railway bridge.
Nearby in the register
- Bryn-y-meddygDomesticunder 1 mi
- Glasinfryn Viaduct (partly in Llandygai community)Transportunder 1 mi
- Fferm GlasynfrynDomesticunder 1 mi
- The 'Stepped' Bridge to Britannia Park.Transportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.