ANY OLD IRON

THE 'iron bridge' at Holgate is either an engineering marvel of interlaced metal girders, or - if you happen to be stuck in traffic there - a blasted nuisance.
Whatever your take on it, this railway bridge is unquestionably one of York's more unusual and striking landmarks.
It was built in 1911 - in Derby, no less, by a company called Handyside - to carry road traffic over the railway tracks, possibly on the site of an earlier footbridge. And it was renovated in 2007.
But did you know that back in the 1980s it was also raised - 'jacked up', in British rail's phrase of the day - to create more space underneath so that overhead railway wires needed for rail electrification could be included?