| Winterstoke railway bridge, Weston super mare closed for two years. Posted by infoman at 06:14, 24th November 2025 |     |
being reported on local radio channels
| Re: Winterstoke railway bridge, Weston super mare closed for two years. Posted by bradshaw at 07:28, 24th November 2025 | |
Report on BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx23ln9klpzo
And on Somerset Council website
https://n-somerset.gov.uk/business/regeneration-development/winterstoke-road-replacement-bridge-scheme
| Re: Winterstoke railway bridge, Weston super mare closed for two years. Posted by grahame at 07:44, 24th November 2025 | |
That's on the Weston avoider line, and is close to road vehicle traffic for two years. No closure to rail traffic announced though I would suspect that there will be some engineering works that mean trains can't go that way - divert through WSM station?
| Re: Winterstoke railway bridge, Weston super mare closed for two years. Posted by John D at 08:05, 24th November 2025 | |
Quite unusual, built during world war 2, replacement being part funded by Ministry of Defence.
Does anyone know the history of this, I realise there was an airfield nearby, and some of the munitions / war components factories were near areas with lots of Boarding houses to house the workers. But no idea specifically on this.
