Cannon Street Railway Bridge
Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 31 ″ N , 0 ° 5 ′ 30 ″ W.
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| use | Railway bridge | |
| Crossing of | Thames | |
| place | London | |
| construction | Wrought iron girder bridge on cast iron piers | |
| start of building | 1863 | |
| opening | 1866 | |
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The Cannon Street Railway Bridge (originally Princess Alexandra Bridge ) is a railway bridge over the River Thames in London . It is the main entrance to Cannon Street Station in the City of London . The 24.5 m wide bridge consists of five fields of wrought iron girders that rest on cast iron bridge piers. It is used by five railroad tracks.
The bridge was designed by John Hankshaw and John Wolfe-Barry for the South Eastern Railway and opened at the same time as the station in 1866 after three years of construction. At the beginning the structure was named Princess Alexandra Bridge, named after Princess Alexandra of Denmark , the wife of the later King Edward VII. Between 1886 and 1893 the bridge was widened and from 1979 to 1982 it was extensively renovated. Almost all the decorative accessories were removed, which makes the bridge look very functional today.
On August 20, 1989, the excursion ship Marchioness and the dredger Bowbelle collided under the bridge ; 51 of the 132 passengers drowned on the Marchioness .
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upstream Southwark Bridge |
River crossings of the Thames |
downstream London Bridge |