[Talk-GB] Road/Rail Bridge near Preston Park

[Jez Nicholson]

As an aside, the bridge just further east
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/48132275 now has a cut-out 'ghost train'
that is lit up at night.

On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 6:14 PM Jez Nicholson <jez.nicholson at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Known locally as "Pigeon Shit Bridge". I'll let you guess why for
> yourselves. Needless to say, one doesn't hang around when walking under it.
>
> Although I can see the gap between the service road
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/633094942 and the first line
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/236002689 in general I would regard it
> as a single very wide bridge carrying 12 lines and the service road, with
> the gap being an anomaly.
>
> On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 4:31 PM Philip Barnes <phil at trigpoint.me.uk> wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday, 4 June 2019, Tony Shield wrote:
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/50.83309/-0.14321
>> >
>> > shows New England Road and Old Shoreham Road  Brighton.
>> >
>> > The standard OSM render shows 12 rail lines bridged over the roads,
>> > could be read as there being 12 bridges.
>> >
>> > Looking at aerials in JOSM looks like those 12 rail lines cross over
>> > using one bridge or perhaps even the road in a tunnel.
>> >
>> > Mapillary detail not available, so in Google Street View there appears
>> > to be 3 bridges, an arched bridge at the east end with a light gap
>> > between it and the next bridge. This 2nd bridge is joined to the 3rd
>> > bridge with no light gap, the west most of the three bridges has
>> support
>> > pillars, the central bridge doesn't.
>> >
>> > Mapping this I think should be done as three bridges/areas using
>> > man_made=bridge with the railway as layer 1. But what are the other
>> > features to identify the arched and the bridge with support columns.
>> >
>> > Thoughts on these railway bridges which are very common?
>> >
>> I have mapped an example just on the north side of Shrewsbury Station.
>>
>>
>> Phil (trigpoint)
>>
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