Clavering Place Bridge, Newcastle

2017

Closer view

This tunnel-like masonry bridge, east of Newcastle Central Station carries railway tracks over the road connecting Clavering Place on the south side of the railway with Westgate Road to the north. It is part of a viaduct, most of the arches of which are used as business premises on Forth Street.

The distinctive feature of this bridge is the arrangement of the soffit's white glazed bricks. The pattern of the courses changes from helicoid at the skewed ends to straight in the main extent of the tunnel. The standard of workmanship is impressive.

Network Rail designation: ECM7/3 Clavering Place Underline Bridge.

1848 '...... The line then curves to the west, along the south side of the Castle Garth to Clavering-place, which is crossed by a skew bridge; and there is another skew bridge over the deviation of the Postern. The retaining walls of the embankment here form one side of the Postern and Bailiff-gate. The permanent line will run westward into the general station at the Forth as soon as it is completed. There is room all the way along this part for five lines of railway. The junction between the temporary and the permanent line is a little west of the Norman Keep, by the north side of which the permanent line proceeds eastward. The viaducts on the north side, as well as the high level bridge, are under the contracts of Messrs. Rush and Lawton, who have here set as much as 22,000 cubic feet of ashlar work. Having upwards of 200 parties to treat with, the works were set out in detached portions, yet no alteration or reconstruction was required at any one point.'

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