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Latitude: 51.679 / 51°40'44"N
Longitude: -3.7751 / 3°46'30"W
OS Eastings: 277366
OS Northings: 199294
OS Grid: SS773992
Mapcode National: GBR H4.5F4M
Mapcode Global: VH5GN.J236
Plus Code: 9C3RM6HF+HX
Entry Name: Railway bridge on NE side of Railway Tavern
Listing Date: 25 February 2000
Last Amended: 25 February 2000
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 22863
Building Class: Transport
ID on this website: 300022863
Location: On the NE side of Railway Tavern N of Dulais Fach Road and S of Aberdulais Basin.
County: Neath Port Talbot
Community: Tonna
Community: Tonna
Locality: Aberdulais
Built-Up Area: Neath
Traditional County: Glamorgan
Tagged with: Railway bridge
The Vale of Neath Railway was incorporated in 1846 and opened in 1851. Engineered by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the line was built to a broad gauge. The bridge, one of the few stone bridges original to the railway, was built partly over a navigable channel cut in the late C18 from the River Neath to a forge, later the Aberdulais tinplate works. A tramway connecting to Upper and Lower Works of the Aberdulais Tinplate works also passed beneath the bridge.
A 2-bay bridge constructed of coursed hammer-dressed sandstone, with round arches. A thin coping is above, although the original parapet, probably of iron railings, is now missing. Battered abutments are splayed outwards and retain an embankment. The deck was designed to carry a double broad-gauge track, but now carries a single track.
Listed for its industrial archaeological interest as a fine masonry bridge associated with Brunel's original Vale of Neath Railway, and for group value with other listed canal and railway items at Aberdulais Basin.
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