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    Government halts plans to infill historic railway bridges

    Aug 31, 2021 3 minutes
    By Robin Jones

    PRIME Minister Boris Johnson has called a halt to plans by Government roads agency Highways England to fill in 69 disused Victorian railway bridges with concrete and demolish another 15 over the next five years.

    The Whitehall move came after 159-years-old Great Musgrave Bridge in Cumbria was infilled by contractors using about 10,000 tons of concrete, blocking a trackbed which could one day be used to link the Stainmore Railway

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