Railway Bridge

The Hull and Barnsley Railway Bridge is a railway swing bridge in Hull, England, United Kingdom. It is the only railway swing bridge in the city, and provides a connection from the west to the east for freight trains.

Description
Railway Bridge is a plain blue bridge, and is the second oldest (the oldest being Sculcoates Bridge). It serves as a river crossing for freight trains using the Hull Docks High Level Line. It also swings for vessels, oncoming trains are stopped by a red signal. It is similar to the Ouse Bridge - which according to the HBR site, has a unique latching system which ensures the rails connect and also the signal wires, so theoretically it could be rotated 180 degrees and still have the rails connect, though the signal wires would not be connected correctly.

Infrastructure
Railway Bridge does not contain much infrastructure, due to the fact it is a railway bridge rather than a road or pedestrian one, though red signals and the AWS in the train cab is thought to halt oncoming trains when the bridge is due to open.

Railway Services
It provides a river crossing for trains using the Hull High Level Docks line, which going easterly provides a connection to King George Dock/ABP Port of Hull off Hedon Road, and going westerly provides a connection to Spring Bank and eventually Hessle Road Junction and on to the mainline near Dairycoates.

The line still sees regular flows of biomass, gypsum and steel, and formerly saw coal and even the odd nuclear flask. According to the HBR site, in older times the main freight on this line was New Zealand and Australian wool which ran between Hull Docks and West Yorkshire woollen mills.

Faults
No faults.

Other Info
The bridge isn't directly accessible or viewable to pedestrians, though the local bus routes listed on the Public Transport box serve the closest main road which is Stoneferry Road.