Blue Bridge, Wolverton

About

The Blue Bridge is an 1830s bridge over the West Coast Main Line near Wolverton in Milton Keynes (Buckinghamshire), England. Built to take a farm track over a new cutting for the London and Birmingham Railway (L&BR), it was designed by Robert Stephenson, the L&BR's chief engineer and extended in the 1880s when the line was widened. It is a Grade II listed building. When a modern bridge was built alongside (to carry Millers Way over the line), it continued in use for a time as a shared path but, after being declared unsafe, is no longer open for use. The name "Blue Bridge" is used for a small modern residential district that has been built on the farm land on the east side of the new cutting, to which the bridge provided access.

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