ONscotland wrote in message
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Paul Scott wrote:
"umpston" wrote in message
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SteveTBM® wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackfriars_Railway_Bridge


So why have the supports of the old bridge been left behind?




The bridge was of cast-iron construction and would have had scrap
value. The masonry supports had no value and, presumably, there was
no funding at the time to remove them for aesthetic reasons.
However, I
like ruins like this and hope they will stay as they are.

See my other post, the easternmost piers are to be used by the new
Blackfriars station, so must be in reasonable condition - IIRC the
tops are properly capped off to waterproof them as well.

Paul

I'm probably getting mixed up with something else, I think there were
plans to have sculptures on the top of each support - sounds awful! I
heard that in a pub somewhere...

LOL. But keep quiet about that one: you'll give people ideas :-(

Before the old part of the bridge was demoloished, was the station wider (ie
did it extend west towards the road bridge) or did the extra tracks merge
into the existing ones just south of the roofed section? Likewise on the
south bank, did the tracks merge into the existing ones before the start of
the long north-south building, or was that built after the bridge was
demolished?