Old Railway Bridge over River Gaunless © DCC 2006


Old Railway Bridge over River Gaunless © DCC 2006


Old Railway Bridge over River Gaunless © DCC 2006


Old Railway Bridge over River Gaunless - detail © DCC 2006


Old Railway Bridge over River Gaunless - detail © DCC 2006


Oblique view of landscape surrounding the Railway Bridge over Gaunless, Hagger Leazes September 2016


Second oblique view of landscape surrounding the Railway Bridge over Gaunless, Hagger Leazes September 2016


Oblique view of right outer face of the Railway Bridge over Gaunless, Hagger Leazes September 2016


Second oblique view of right outer face of the Railway Bridge over Gaunless, Hagger Leazes September 2016


Third oblique view of right outer face of the Railway Bridge over Gaunless, Hagger Leazes September 2016


Road surface of the Railway Bridge over Gaunless, Hagger Leazes September 2016


Oblique view of beginning of left face of the Railway Bridge over Gaunless, Hagger Leazes September 2016


Second view of road surface of the Railway Bridge over Gaunless, Hagger Leazes September 2016

Bridge over River Gaunless. Part of the Haggerleases Branch Railway which opened in 1830.

The Haggerleases Branch Railway was opened from Tunnel Branch Junction, St Helens, to its terminus near Butterknowle in 1830, and was renamed the Butterknowle Branch Railway in 1899. It was built as an alternative to the Evenwood Branch authorised in the act for the Stockton and Darlington Railway. It followed the route of the River Gaunless and served pits at the head of the valley. In 1963 the section west of Evenwood Colliery was closed. Sections of the railway on the north side of Cockfield Fell fall within a scheduled area.