Britain's lowest railway bridge and weakest road bridges

[OLD GIT]

This must be getting close to the rail low height record --https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.52206 ... 312!8i6656
It's 6 ft ,on a rail bridge on the Nuneaton- Birmingham line.

[FleetlinePhil]

By no means low, this one was a regular place for bridge strikes when I used to work at stations on the Marple line:
https://goo.gl/maps/LcFd5Y29Pyq
Perhaps increased use of sat-navs has improved the situation since then?

[nirs]

This one is damned low at 2.15m. I'd be fairly confident in saying that it's the lowest signed railway bridge in Northern Ireland, and probably amongst the lowest in the UK.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@54.85926 ... 312!8i6656

[Helvellyn]

This one is damned low at 2.15m. I'd be fairly confident in saying that it's the lowest signed railway bridge in Northern Ireland, and probably amongst the lowest in the UK.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@54.85926 ... 312!8i6656

I could walk under that without ducking but I'm sure my brain would be telling me to duck!

[Fenlander]

Irby street Boston, 1.9m. Drive along it and you come round a corner to this view which after ducking to go under the bridge and breathing in to squeeze between the parked cars suddenly feels even bigger than it looks.

[Bryn666]

Irby street Boston, 1.9m. Drive along it and you come round a corner to this view which after ducking to go under the bridge and breathing in to squeeze between the parked cars suddenly feels even bigger than it looks.

I chickened out of going under that the other week when exploring Boston as I was in a hire car... 1.9m is lower than many multi-storey car park entrances.

[OLD GIT]

Another candidate, although I can't find it on Google maps- the road leading to Kings Langley station car park. I can't remember the stated height, but it certainly made the aerials on Transit vans rattle going under it .

[wrinkly]

Another candidate, although I can't find it on Google maps- the road leading to Kings Langley station car park. I can't remember the stated height, but it certainly made the aerials on Transit vans rattle going under it .

This looks like it, but the headroom sign is not visible.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.70746 ... 312!8i6656

[A303Chris]

This is low just south of Shoreham Airfield at 2.1 metres, 7 foot.

Google street car obviously had to lower their pole to get under, and in a 4 by 4, it feels very tight.

[Octaviadriver]

This is low just south of Shoreham Airfield at 2.1 metres, 7 foot.

Google street car obviously had to lower their pole to get under, and in a 4 by 4, it feels very tight.

Was there a level crossing here in the past? There appears to be a from the brick bridge alongside the road over the culvert and the asphalt on the other side where there are buildings. If so, did the bridge replace the level crossing or did it originally have both?

[Madstunts]

Ely has a famous bridge, often quoted as the 'most hit railway bridge' in the country. Though it's far from the lowest on this thread!

I wonder which is the most struck. I would go for Kenworthy Road in Hackney, London, regularly announced on the radio and always with smash damage visible both sides

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.5466733 ... 312!8i6656

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.547023, ... 312!8i6656

I struggled to find an official top 10 or similar. Back in 2010 the Telegraph reported Ely was most-hit: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/ne ... itain.html and the Cambridge News reported similar last autumn (get an ad-blocker before visiting their mess of a website) https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/c ... n-13813637

There is a top ten here...
https://www.railmagazine.com/news/rail-features/bcb

Kenworthy Road is second-most hit, after Ely

[Madstunts]

This is low just south of Shoreham Airfield at 2.1 metres, 7 foot.

Google street car obviously had to lower their pole to get under, and in a 4 by 4, it feels very tight.

Was there a level crossing here in the past? There appears to be a from the brick bridge alongside the road over the culvert and the asphalt on the other side where there are buildings. If so, did the bridge replace the level crossing or did it originally have both?

Yes. Looking at old maps, it originally had both.

[AndyB]

This one is damned low at 2.15m. I'd be fairly confident in saying that it's the lowest signed railway bridge in Northern Ireland, and probably amongst the lowest in the UK.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@54.85926 ... 312!8i6656

I wanted to disagree, because this is very low on a bike... but I can't!

[OLD GIT]

Another candidate, although I can't find it on Google maps- the road leading to Kings Langley station car park. I can't remember the stated height, but it certainly made the aerials on Transit vans rattle going under it .

This looks like it, but the headroom sign is not visible.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.70746 ... 312!8i6656

That's the one from memory. No height mentioned, but I do remember that we had problems with Transit vans and height clearance on that one.

[danfw194]

Shore Road East in Llanfairfechan - 6 foot tall

[Glenn A]

A problem if you're over 6 feet tall( old sign in feet and inches only), there is a bridge underneath the Cumbrian Coast Line in Whitehaven on the cycle path which has a maximum headroom of 6 feet. It hasn't been unheard of for cyclists to hit the bridge or for tall people to forget to bend slightly to get through.

[Bryn666]

Shore Road East in Llanfairfechan - 6 foot tall

Given the only other way into the Promenade there is under another low bridge (10'3"), is there anywhere else that is completely cut off from high vehicles? Deliveries must be a nightmare.

[Scratchwood]

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.45877 ... 312!8i6656

I imagine this one near Crayford would have been a candidate if they hadn't dug a trench underneath it (which often floods) to allow lorries through!

[Madstunts]

Another candidate, although I can't find it on Google maps- the road leading to Kings Langley station car park. I can't remember the stated height, but it certainly made the aerials on Transit vans rattle going under it .

This looks like it, but the headroom sign is not visible.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.70746 ... 312!8i6656

That's the one from memory. No height mentioned, but I do remember that we had problems with Transit vans and height clearance on that one.

According to Parkopedia, the height restriction is 2m

https://en.parkopedia.co.uk/parking/car ... s_langley/

[FleetlinePhil]

May I suggest Britain's lowest-clearance bus route, at least in terms of marked bridge height (6'0")?

Okay, a bit of a cheat, but the bus was in service, I assure you. Summer 1989, and the B6138 was closed for a day in the centre of Mytholmroyd while a building was demolished, meaning the minibus routes to Cragg Vale and Nest Estate were diverted under the railway bridge on Thrush Hill Road. I had made numerous trips under the bridge in the morning before going back in the afternoon to snap one of my colleagues suffering.

This is about the scariest I can make it appear on GSV:https://goo.gl/maps/oJoyZS9q7su