Railway Bridge
RAILWAY BRIDGE, COMMERCIAL ROAD E1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1357806
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Railway Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- RAILWAY BRIDGE, COMMERCIAL ROAD E1
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1357806
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Railway Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- RAILWAY BRIDGE, COMMERCIAL ROAD E1
- Statutory Address 2:
- RAILWAY BRIDGE, COMMERCIAL ROAD E14
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- RAILWAY BRIDGE, COMMERCIAL ROAD E1
- Statutory Address:
- RAILWAY BRIDGE, COMMERCIAL ROAD E14
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Tower Hamlets (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ3644081120
Details
788/17/908
26-APR-04
STEPNEY
COMMERCIAL ROAD E14
(South side)
Railway Bridge
COMMERCIAL ROAD E1
(South side)
Railway Bridge
GV
II
Former railway bridge, now dis-used. 1870s for London and Blackwall Railway Company and its lessee, Great Eastern Railway. Wrought-iron superstructure supported by brick abutments and three cast iron columns.
Superstructure of latticed box girder with flat bolted underside and diagonal tensile members of wrought-iron flat plates. Yellow brick abutments in English bond at each end carry the superstructure, along with pair of additional cast iron column supports to east side. Drinking Fountain (q.v.) attached to northern abutment. The superstructure, abutments, and columns are all structural components of the bridge. The c.1880 viaduct continues to north and south.
HISTORY: The London and Blackwall Railway Company and it lessee, the Great Eastern Railway Company, completed the viaduct that carry the Limehouse Curve in 1880. This link provided a link, allowing goods trains from Millwall and the other London Docks to run directly onto the main-line system of the Great Eastern Railway. The listed bridge is much wider than the present roadway, reflecting the greater width of the Commerical Road it was built to cross. Commercial Road was constructed c.1802-04 as the toll road connecting the East and West India Docks and the City.
Listed as a late-C1870s distinctive railway bridge for the Great Eastern Railway with wrought iron latticed superstructure and additional cast iron columns supports, also having historic interest and strong group value.
Group value with the Grade II London and Blackwall Railway viaduct of 1839-40 (q.v.), the adjacent houses along Commercial Road (q.v.), the Accumulative Tower (q.v.) and the dated 1886 Drinking Fountain attached to the northern abutment (q.v.)
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 205878
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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