A corner of yorkshire THE FOOTBRIDGE, BEVERLEY STATION

It has been standing on this site, spanning the Hull to Scarborough line, since around 1884, and the canopy, which is a unique design, was added five years later, to protect rail passengers from inclement weather as they crossed from one platform to the other.

The station itself was opened in 1846, with a fairly basic plan from the architect, James Townsend Andrews, but he cleverly designed the bridge so that all the parts could be taken to the site, and then bolted together. The company that owned it back then was the York and North Midlands Railway, which was later taken over by the North Eastern

Railway. Today’s bridge may be Grade II-listed but Network Rail claims that it is “structurally failing” and that its removal is “unavoidable”. Many in Beverley – and beyond – beg to differ.

And now the Civic Society is fighting plans to have the timber and cast-iron structure demolished and replaced.