Temple Meads Relief Line Bridge ( bridge 11)

This is the second of my 45 photos of the 45 bridges of Bristol. It’s also called the St Philips Marsh Avoiding Line bridge. It’s a steel rail and foot bridge built in 1892. It’s only recently been painted this colour - which  is lovely in my opinion. I think the curves and lines are attractive.  It rests on 4 massive pillars which were sunk deep deep into the watery ground. It’s original purpose was to enable goods trains to by pass Temple Meads station  -which is very close by. When travelling on trips and holidays became more common there were also passenger trains taking people non stop from London to Devon and Cornwall, which would have crossed here. Nowadays it’s used very rarely to take Diesel engines to a maintenance unit.  I’ve never seen an engine or train going across it. 
I was walking down to the city centre with my son L, who is visiting. We walked along the various waterside paths to get to Castle park, where we sat in the drizzle with delicious coffees and baklava and caught up a bit on life.  Blissful.