Rail over rail/road bridges

[Railfreight1998]

Does anyone know of any prototypes for a rail bridges that cross both rail and roadways. 

There are some road overbridges that span rail and road, but I've found no similar rail bridges. 

 

Thanks in advance

[Michael Hodgson]

The High Level Bridge in Newcastle carries rail above road and the road used to include the old tramway system if that counts.

 

Or what about Larpool viaduct at Whitby?   Built to carry a railway (now closed) over the surviving line, the river and a couple of roads

[russ p]

A couple that come to mind is the viaduct in into Leeds that crosses the former Midland line into Leeds and a few roads,  also the GCR bridge over Nottingham Midland also crosses roads .

I'm sure there must be a few more

[Fat Controller]

Near Clydach, in the Lower Swansea Valley, the Swansea District line crossed Clydach Road and then the continuation of the GWR Morriston West line. There was also a line of terraced houses under the District Line at this point; my paternal grandmother was born in one of them.

Also in Swansea, the former L&NWR line from Victoria crossed the Swansea and Mumbles Railway and the Mumbles road at Blackpill.

 

[eastwestdivide]

Strood, Kent - the line from Sole Street crosses Station Road and the Strood-Cuxton line.

Part brick and part steel, but one crossing

 

google streetview here:

https://goo.gl/maps/K8yLPbpJ15eYvcTz7

 

Also, where the two line cross at Canterbury, there's a lane running parallel to the track:

https://goo.gl/maps/nxHtcL7kUikRm1Z68

Edited January 27, 2021 by eastwestdivide
Canterbury

[Zomboid]

Electric Avenue passes under Brixton station and one of the pair of lines between Clapham High Street and Denmark Hill.

 

Hinton Road just south of Loughborough Junction is very nearly a 3 way intersection, too.

 

If you just want a railway crossing over both a road and another railway in a single structure then there's plenty of those around South London.

[eastwestdivide]

Probably out of scope, but on HS1, there's a long viduct section carrying HS1 over the road coming up from from the Dartford tunnel (M25/A282, the LTS line, and a separate siding into Thurrock wharf.

[Nick C]

Midford is another example - the viaduct carried the S&D over the road, the river and the GWR branch.

 

For a more contempory twist - just outside Ramsgate there is a level crossing directly over a road tunnel, so according to the map at least, road, rail and road all cross at the same point.

[caradoc]

Not far from Glasgow Central the City Union line (Shields Jc/High St Jc) is carried over Salkeld St and Eglinton St, plus the four tracks of the WCML between the two roads. The City Union was also quadruple at one time but is now down to double track. 

 

[eastglosmog]

In days gone by, Crianlarich, where the West Highland crossed the Callander and Oban and the A89

[Michael Hodgson]

Crumlin Viaduct, GWR over the GWR

[bobthesod4479]

Going completely 180 degrees ( so to speak)  Three Bridges at Southall has a road going over a canal which goes over the railway  The GWR Brentford branch heading SE from Southall Station

[2251]

 

Brixton, here:

 

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.4628534,-0.1134035,90m/data=!3m1!1e3

[eastglosmog]

There is also the Moorswater viaduct which crosses a road as well as the Liskeard and Looe line.

And a bit of a cheat, really, there was a bridge on the Cheltenham and Gloucester railway over a minor road just northeast of Hook Norton that was also used by one of the Hook Norton ironstone railways to pass under the main line railway whilst crossing the road on the level, see https://maps.nls.uk/view/106015761

Edited January 27, 2021 by eastglosmog
Add the bit about the ironstone railway

[simon b]

Have a look around Here on google street view.

Edited January 27, 2021 by simon b

[Railfreight1998]

Thanks for the replies everyone - plenty of inspiration here.

 

Seems like they aren't as uncommon as I thought!

[luckymucklebackit]

On 27/01/2021 at 13:39, caradoc said:

Not far from Glasgow Central the City Union line (Shields Jc/High St Jc) is carried over Salkeld St and Eglinton St, plus the four tracks of the WCML between the two roads. The City Union was also quadruple at one time but is now down to double track. 

 

 

And as far as I can work out, the only location in Scotland where a four track railway crossed a four track railway!  Indeed outside of London there are not many!

 

Jim

[Trog]

Northwick Park GC & Met over the WCML six over six crossing, can not be many better than that.

 

Also odd ones, just south of Norton Bridge station site the river meece flows under the WCML through an underbridge at the same place as Worston Lane overbridge over the railway with the river crossing diagonally under the overbridge (OB17) so it changes sides of both the railway and road in one go.

Edited January 29, 2021 by Trog
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