A new viaduct has been built alongside the station as part of the Snowhill development to carry the tram lines into the city centre.

Trains from the south and west gained access by a new elevated viaduct.

In 1865 the wooden structure was itself replaced by a new viaduct further south, improving the alignment of the railway once more.

The new wooden viaduct of 1846 carries the railway.

A rope gave way while five men were hoisting a wooden beam up onto the new viaduct.

Six of the old piers still stand alongside the new viaduct, but the weakest piers were taken down before they collapsed.

This meant that the northern half of the new viaduct was built first, the timber structure dismantled, and then the southern side completed.

Its works requires a replacement station to be built on a new viaduct nearby.

The new viaduct is currently under construction.

But there is no record of any advance protest or opposition to the new viaduct; apparently residents were happy enough to have free passage underneath.