Tintern Wireworks Branch

[2] In 1866 the Wye Valley Railway Company announced that it would not build a line through the village of Tintern, but by-pass it.

The Wye Valley Amendment Act was passed on 14 June 1875 stating that the company would forever maintain the branch and junction in good repair; as well as setting the regulations on running the line.

[1] The line was designed out by the engineering firm, S. H. Yockney, of London,[a] and the construction works were carried out by the Isca Foundry Co. of Newport.

[9] John Newman, in his Gwent/Monmouthshire volume of the Pevsner Buildings of Wales, notes the bridge's "three steel-truss spans on two high, rock-faced, piers.

"[10] The bridge is a Grade II listed structure and has two listings, as is often the case with bridges that cross county borders; in this case, a Welsh designation by Cadw for the section in Monmouthshire,[9] and an English designation by Historic England for the section in Gloucestershire.