Nostell Bridge Burr Wall Repairs

The Nostell Bridge southwest masonry burr wall was subject to impact damage from an errant vehicle resulting in the damage at the location of a feature buttress. The damaged wall has since been made safe and traffic management was installed on the A638 to keep traffic away from the unprotected carriageway edge (single lane running with traffic lights). The damage revealed that the feature buttress was hollow with rubble infill to approximately carriageway level. Due to extensive cracking and displacement, the brickwork was carefully dismantled to ground level behind the wall to make safe…