Lodge Road bridge, St John's Wood, City of Westminster, London, UK. Made by Andrew Handyside in 1896

Andrew Handyside who made Friargate bridge in Derby also made lots of other bridges around the world such as this road bridge in St John's Wood, City of Westminster, London, UK.

This bridge on Lodge Road over the railway lines was built in Derby by Andrew Handyside in 1896.

There were originally 4 tracks running under this bridge, today there are 3 one is Marylebone to Harrow on Hill (The Great Central line)

Handyside also built the road bridge 0.3 miles southeast over the same railway line at Rossmore Road (Marylebone station)

It was repainted in 2011 in blue and white...

It's a single span bridge of 101ft and a width of 53ft. on the South east side of the bridge the railway tracks are overground, on the North west side the bridge the railway is underground.

My reference : The Engineer 1896
"On the west side of St. John's Wood-road Station, a fine iron bridge by Messrs. Andrew Handyside and Co., of Derby and London, is just 

completing. This carries Lodge-road over the new line, and has separate footways on each side outside the main girders. 

It is the last over-bridge so far, being immediately succeeded by three temporary ones carrying the line over the canal. Hardly a house is now left on the great area south of this, and there seems every probability that it will be brought into use as a coal depot some time 

before passenger traffic begins. A good deal of the old brickwork of the demolished houses, we observed, is being broken up on the spot as if for road metal. It would probably make excellent ballast, as it would drain well and not turn readily either to mud or to dust."

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