British Rail Midland Region London Rugby Line Bridge Number 113

Heritage listing

Details TRING BRITISH BAIL: SP 91 SW MIDLAND REGION LONDON-RUGBY LINE 4/48 Bridge No. 113 - GV II Accommodation bridge over railway at Tring Cutting. Circa 1837 by Robert Stephenson for the London and Birmingham Railway Company. Brown brick with stone impost bands, skewbacks, cornice, and parapet copings. A long narrow three-arched bridge joining land separated by the great Tring Cutting, 2½ miles long and here about 50ft deep. A higher 7-ring segmental arch in middle over trackbed with slender rectangular pier at foot of earth slope on each side, and tall opening through each pier with round-arched head and bottom. Slightly lower segmental 7-ring side arches to abutments buried in earth slope. Wide unmoulded stone cornice at roadway level with brick parapets, rectangular terminal piers and weathered stone copings. The cutting was made necessary by Stephenson's decision to have a maximum gradient of 1/330 on the line, and there is a well known lithograph by J.C. Bourne showing an army of navvies excavating it. The line was opened 9 April 1838. The south side of the bridge is in Aldbury parish. (Leleux(1976)13-15). Listing NGR: SP9481012617 Legacy The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system. Legacy System number: 355685 Legacy System: LBS

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.