The Midland Bridge was originally built by the Midland Railway Company to allow the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway

Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway

The Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway – almost always referred to as "the S&D" – was an English railway line connecting Bath in north east Somerset and Bournemouth now in south east Dorset but then in Hampshire...

 access to and from their Green Park Terminus Station

Bath Green Park railway station

Green Park railway station is a former railway station in Bath, Somerset, England. For some of its life, it was known as Bath Queen Square.-Architecture and opening:...

, in Bath, Somerset

Somerset

The ceremonial and non-metropolitan county of Somerset in South West England borders Bristol and Gloucestershire to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east, and Devon to the south-west. It is partly bounded to the north and west by the Bristol Channel and the estuary of the...

, England.

The bridge enabled linking the Midland Railway to the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway and opening up links to the western side of Bath City Centre. The bridge was probably built some time in the early 1870s around the time of the newly completed Somerset and Dorset Railway Bath extension line in 1874. Along with the station it was designed by J.H. Sanders and engineered by Messrs Allport Jnr and Wilson.

The bridge is no longer used by the railways and instead carries the B3118 road, which is one of the main inner city road crossings over the River Avon.