Engineering upgrades close historic Lymington

Published on 30-10-2024 at 10:00

The venerable wrought iron viaduct over the harbout at Lymington carries a twebnty-first century South Western Railway train, as it has done since the nineteenth century. Network Rail media centre

It’s a quintessentially English scene. A train winds its way across a harbour to a historic ferry pier. There were examples all over the country, especially in the south, and a charmingly quaint example still exists in daily service at Lymington. Except it won’t for the next few weeks, and not at all, unless planned engineering upgrades are carried out on the Victorian wrought iron bridge over the harbour.