{"id":362922,"date":"2026-01-10T15:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T15:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/362922\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T15:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T15:08:07","slug":"historic-weston-bridge-demolished-ahead-of-11m-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/362922\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic Weston bridge demolished ahead of \u00a311m replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A historic 85-year-old bridge which played a big role in a town&#8217;s World War Two efforts has been demolished.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Winterstoke Road Bridge, a key transport link through Weston-super-Mare, closed to traffic in November due to its age and condition, and was officially demolished and removed over Christmas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">North Somerset Council said the demolition of the bridge, which crossed a railway line between Bristol and Taunton, mostly took place when trains were not running on Christmas Day, and had paved the way for &#8220;a stronger and more reliable bridge that will ensure access on Winterstoke Road the next 120 years&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An \u00a311m replacement bridge is due to open in spring 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A historic 85-year-old bridge which played a big role in a town&#8217;s World War Two efforts has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-362922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}