Gosforth Metro bridge

The next crossing is the Metro where it splits into two lines
The pair on the left go to the Gosforth Metro Depot and Regent Centre station
whilst those on the right go to South Gosforth station and to Newcastle and Sunderland.

The railings of the brige are just beyond the worker to the left of the railway track.
It is easier seen if you click on the photo to get the fullsize image.
Also from the fullsize image you can see the train is "Not in Service"
which means it is going to the Gosforth Metro Depot to be serviced!

I have not got a photo of the upstream side, it involves access to allotments that are locked.
This is the downstream side. Looking through I thought I could see the arch of another bridge,
but going on Google Earth it cannot be.

It is a substantial structure built by the North Eastern Railway to carry its third rail
electric trains from Newcastle to the coast.

That dog in the water is "Bobby", my dog, in his exuburance he jumped onto the wall
where the workers were busy and landed up in the Ouse Burn, a drop of about 2.5 metres.
No way could I rescue him from that side. Fortunately the other side sloped up to allotments.
I had to go 200 metres downstream to the next road bridge over the Ouse Burn,
Then 200 metres back up, climbing a 2 metre fence into the locked allotments
before being reunited with him.

The problem now was to get out of the allotments with Bobby over the 2 metre fence.
I noticed one of the back gardens adjoining the allotments had a gate, I went in and up the garden
to a conservatory where a woman was reading a magazine, she had not seen me, so when I knocked
on the window she was quite startled. She came to the garden door and I explained my predicament.
She would not let me through her house because she had cats (and dogs don't mix), but she contacted
her neighbour who was happy to let me through her house.

The serendipity of Bobby's fall into the burn is that I got the downstream photograh
of the Metro crossing. No way would I have climbed a 2 metre fence for the photograph
unless to rescue Bobby.