Campaigners raise concerns over infilling of historic Yorkshire railway bridge they claim was in good condition

National Highways, which manages the historic railways estate for the government, have submitted a retrospective planning application to North Yorkshire Council for the work, which was completed in 2021, to be classed as legal. The bridge in question, at Rudgate near Tadcaster, has a distinctive skewed arch and was built in 1847 for the Harrogate to Church Fenton line, which closed in the 1960s as part of the Beeching cuts. Although the track was lifted, the bridge structure survived.

HRE Group member Graeme Bickerdike said: “This is what happens when an organisation focused only on its own narrow interests is allowed to act without appropriate scrutiny. “Rudgate was a historic and aesthetically attractive bridge, designed by an engineer who was at the forefront of the railway revolution in the 1840s - supposedly the first articled pupil of Robert Stephenson, with whom he worked on several Yorkshire railways. But National Highways shows no respect for such endeavours.

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