General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

I think it was built originally, for safe passage across the railway for railway staff, and miners, because back in the day that was a very busy railway line, serving several local collieries, and there was a connection to the Blackburn line at Adlington, and because of the volume of the railway traffic, over the several running lines there, it would have been unsafe for folk to cross those lines by stepping over the tracks, hence the construction of the bridge LINK

So I don't think that bridge is needed there now, but it will probably end up being moved to one of the 'Heritage Lines' in this country, which won't be a bad thing, because if that happens, many more people will be able to enjoy that bridge, because it really is a nice bridge