Very sad sight David, even though it was in a poor state it was still strong enough to support the heavy machine !!

It`s always sad when you see old structures like this having to be demolished. The Brickwork on the end supports was amazing. The old Goods Warehouse under Manchester Piccadilly Station is like a Brick Cathedral inside, a real sight, worth seeing.

how dare they

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Didn’t look that much wrong with it. A bridge originally built for cattle and sheep to cross a century ago was despite everything still able to carry a huge digger without falling or bits dropping off. Network Rail just to mean to do anything. Usual mentality just knock it down.

I hope NR were able to recover some of the larger faced stonework, if only for repairing other structures.

A good, but very sad record David of the demolition of the bridge. As one of the other comments points out, built by the navvies with shovels and picks and lasted to the present day

Hi Dave. This was a very sad event for those of us who love The S & C. Bridge no 64, Gauber was part of contract No1 - Settle Junction-Dent Head Viaduct & awarded to John Ashwell of Kentish Town London, £343,318! His contract was cancelled 26 Oct 1871 when he fell into financial problems, the Contract being taken over by MRC. Built by navvies with pick axes & shovels; destroyed 100+ years later by 2 Diggers! There is currently no plan to replace it as it was no longer used. The remaining Long Meg signal Box was also destroyed a few years back, the last of it's type standing on the Line; another tragedy! English Heritage disappearing!

During demolition, it was interesting to see the bricks and how they had lain to have supported weight for 140 years. Unfortunate that the bridge is now lost, however.

Interesting record of the demolition Dave, but a little sad too. Thanks for that. Ken

Sad but fascinating to watch Dave, and well done for capturing this event for future reference...Regards...Bob

What a great shame to see an old stone bridge disappear . Its a part of heritage gone Regards C&A

Surely the bridge could not have been in such an unsafe condition having just had a 10t excavator drive over it ! It must have been more economic to repair it than demolish it.

Very interesting !!

Great Video, I have subscribed.

Very sad to see Historic bridges being demolished!

Interesting to see the inside of the structure.

What was this bridge used for? Was it a main road or something for vehicles to travel on? There’s also grass on it as well which I assume is abandoned. Tell me more about this old bridge.

do they plan on replacing this bridge with a new one?

A very interesting video but a sad sight indeed. Regards - Allan.

Great video, but sad to see infrastructure ebing demolished because of neglect which is down to poor funding/investment/interest in historic British railway features.

Thinking of the history such as WW2 involving that bridge with soldiers using it to cross.

question, is steam still run regularly in the UK, im from America and we dont see steam at all in some parts of the country.

It's as if the real problem was one of clearance under it

I could not do it, I could not watch the whole video.....too sad. :(

I hope they are going to keep all that Bridge masonry for some future historic scheme it would be a shame to let it go to waste

Nothing's sacred is it?

Why was the bridge demolished? Was it no longer needed for livestock transfer? And why did those trains need a diesel at the rear. Steam almost never fails so why?

Can you see modern bridges lasting 140 years? answers on a postcard to:ClockWorkFail

All the people here crying about a derelict, damaged, and disused bridge being demolished need to take a step back and see that nothing of real value was lost.

Heartbreaking. What a sad state of affairs when such a historic structure gets removed because it is cheaper to destroy than repair. Hopefully they will put up a really ugly concrete and steel structure in it's place.

Bit sad, but hey ho. Needs must

Totally unnecessary. Result of a lack of maintenance brought on by privitisation.

bad form, 140 year old structure torn apart, same happens here in Ireland 😥

It is disgusting that there was little if any publicity to the public available about this historic bridge to us in London are so we are unlawfully robbed of our chance of visiting the bridge before its demise, with the info unlawfully kept from us and it is well out of order that the due demolition was wrongfully kept quiet here in London, so unlawfully preventing people here visiting it before it went. This is as usual due to the continued gross incompetence of so many Authorities, Companies, People and Organisations, with the now rife total lack of information of interesting things we all want to know about. Yet unlawful brainwashing television untruthful adverts are unlawfully forced on us with info we do not want o know about. We live in a Crazy society.

To answer some of the more uneducated responses on here; 1) It did not last 140 years without regular maintenance. 2) You are not prepared to pay for it so why should others be expected to 3) It's size was designed for the railways of old and it is structures like these that limit the loading gauge of the whole route - if you want to see this line stay open and used more then things like this need to go.

Two men working, eight watching. No wonder train travel is so costly. It was demolished as repair would have seen the line out of use for several days and cost substantially more than demolition. Shame.