{"id":39180,"date":"2024-02-27T16:03:18","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T16:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=39180"},"modified":"2024-02-24T18:35:52","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T18:35:52","slug":"great-musgrave-bridge-works-challenged-as-infill-removal-cost-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=39180","title":{"rendered":"Great Musgrave bridge works challenged as infill removal cost revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-30802\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Musgrave_railway_station_bridge_09.08.2016R_RuthAS_Commons_Wikimedia.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" \/>Campaigners have voiced concerns about \u2018damaged stonework\u2019 and \u2018poor repairs\u2019 at a historic railway bridge in Cumbria which National Highways exhumed last year at an \u2018eyewatering\u2019 cost to the taxpayer.<\/h3>\n<h6><em>image for illustration: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=50687148https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=50687148\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Great Musgrave Bridge<\/a> by RuthAS \u2013 Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0<\/em><\/h6>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em>The News &amp; Star<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n<p>In June 2021, Great Musgrave bridge near Kirkby Stephen was controversially in-filled by Nation Highways\u2026 jeopardising the longstanding plans of the Eden Valley and Stainmore railways to connect their operations&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u2026.and after a sustained campaign by railway heritage groups, an enforcement notice was issued, requiring the removal of 1,600 tonnes of stone and concrete\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>National Highways has now confirmed that the work cost \u00a3352,000, almost three times the \u00a3124,000 spent on the original in-fill scheme.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsandstar.co.uk\/news\/24106557.cumbrian-bridge-works-challenged-infill-removal-cost-revealed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigners have voiced concerns about \u2018damaged stonework\u2019 and \u2018poor repairs\u2019 at a historic railway bridge in Cumbria which National Highways exhumed last year at an \u2018eyewatering\u2019 cost to the taxpayer. image for illustration: Great Musgrave Bridge by RuthAS \u2013 Own &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=39180\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39181,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39180\/revisions\/39181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}