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The footbridge which carries a public footpath from Tentercroft Street over the top of Lincoln Central Railway Station and to Oxford Street. In Lincoln, Lincolnshire.
It was built by the Great Northern Railway and opened in 1851. The bridge is in two parts making a dog-leg connection; south section is modern metal open framed structure, with concrete walkway, resting on metal piers at south end and in centre, and at north end on pier of blue bricks, which also supports south end of northern section of bridge. This part is older cast iron with solid iron parapets and wooden walkway. The northern end rests on pier of yellow brick up to which concrete steps ascend from Oxford Street between walls of same yellow brick with concrete coping. This wall continues as boundary wall of Central Station. On maps up to and including 1903 OS map, the bridge is straight, the dog-leg being made sometime before 1930. The first bridge had lattice parapets.
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The footbridge which carries a public footpath from Tentercroft Street over the top of Lincoln Central Railway Station and to Oxford Street. In Lincoln, Lincolnshire.
It was built by the Great Northern Railway and opened in 1851. The bridge is in two parts making a dog-leg connection; south section is modern metal open framed structure, with concrete walkway, resting on metal piers at south end and in centre, and at north end on pier of blue bricks, which also supports south end of northern section of bridge. This part is older cast iron with solid iron parapets and wooden walkway. The northern end rests on pier of yellow brick up to which concrete steps ascend from Oxford Street between walls of same yellow brick with concrete coping. This wall continues as boundary wall of Central Station. On maps up to and including 1903 OS map, the bridge is straight, the dog-leg being made sometime before 1930. The first bridge had lattice parapets.