Some bridges have survived, some have not

[Rail Rover]

As far as I know it was a brick arch. I remember seeing a slipped brick almost falling out of the arch a year or so before it came down.

[AlanL]

Oh dear. I have just ripped my brick arch apart and replaced it with a girder....

[MikeE]

Burdale station bridge was bridge 16 not 17 Alan and it was a brick arch removed about 1983ish

[AlanL]

Many thanks for that Mike! I had a feeling you might have a photo. Regarding the number of the bridge......well look at the NER siding diagram.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2598/382 ... a873_b.jpg

It's very clearly marked "Bridge 17".

[AndyB]

It looks like the brickwork and cappings had some serious work carried out along with the removal of the arch, in order to maintain the integrity of the abuttments. And thats probably why the abuttments look like they were originally intended for a steel decked bridge.

[MikeE]

Strange about the bridge number Alan, I had the bridge plate from the recently removed bridge abutments at Wharram station, no 14 (I picked it up from the cinders about 30 years ago) my station diagram shows the bridge near Wharram Percy as number 15 then the tunnel and Bridge 16 at Burdale, then there are the 2 cattle creeps under the line east of Burdale (17 & 18) then bridge 19 between Towthorpe and Burdale.

[AlanL]

Wouldn't the culvert carrying the spring or pumping station overflow at Wharram Percy bridge be Number 15 then the Tunnel Number 16?

[4008]

Another great photo Mike - thanks for posting.

[MikeE]

Tunnels did'nt carry a bridge plate Alan nor did culverts,(or very rarely) My North Eastern Railway diagrams of stations confirms all the bridge numbers correspond with my lists, I also have a British Rail list of bridges still owned by BR in the eighties with map reference numbers I aquired from the BR bridge inspector when I was a relief signalman at York in the eighties.
Also my NER linen map of Burdale shows it as bridge 16, bridge 19 is definately the backfilled brick bridge between Burdale and Towthorpe and there are only two bridges between bridge 19 and Burdale station bridge which must be 17 and 18 therefore Burdale has to be 16.

[AlanL]

Thanks for the info Mike but......."confused"