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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Matthew Weaver

National Highways may have to reverse burial of Victorian railway bridge

A steam train passes under the bridge in 1957.
A steam train passes under the Rudgate Road Bridge in 1957. Photograph: The Transport Treasury Ltd (MM292)

The government’s roads agency has been told it must reverse its burial of another Victorian railway bridge, or seek permission for it, as the extent of the agency’s “cultural vandalism” has emerged.

Selby district council has told National Highways (NH) it must apply for planning permission if it wants to retain hundreds of tonnes of aggregate and concrete the agency used to submerge the arch of a 175-year-old bridge over Rudgate Road near Newton Kyme, North Yorkshire.

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