To revamp the road layout in front of York Railway Station – was built about 150 years ago in order to improve access to that very station.
Research supporting the demolition scheme helps tell a fascinating story for what is, fundamentally, just a bridge.
Back in 1877 – which is about when the bridge was built – the railway station we have today was very much York’s ‘new’ station.
The earlier station – inside the city walls, where City of York Council’s West Offices now are – had been accessed by rail by two arches cut into the city wall by G.T. Andrews in 1839 and 1846.
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