Grosvenor Bridge
Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 5 ″ N , 0 ° 8 ′ 50 ″ W.
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| use | Railway bridge | |
| Crossing of | Thames | |
| place | London | |
| construction | Arch bridge | |
| overall length | 283.5 m | |
| width | 54 m | |
| Longest span | 53.3 m | |
| start of building | 1st bridge - 1859 2nd bridge - 1865 |
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| opening | 1st bridge - June 9, 1860 2nd bridge - 1867 |
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The Grosvenor Bridge , also Victoria Railway Bridge , a railroad bridge over the river Thames in London . Located between the major Victoria and Clapham Junction stations, it is the oldest railroad crossing in central London. A total of ten tracks run over the 54 meter wide bridge. Immediately to the southeast is Battersea Power Station , around 140 m upstream the Chelsea Bridge and then Battersea Park to the southwest .
The oldest part of the bridge was commissioned by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway . Civil engineer John Fowler was instructed that the new bridge should look similar to the Chelsea Bridge, 140 meters upstream . He planned an arch bridge with a cast iron structure. Construction began in 1859 and exactly one year later, on June 9, 1860, the first train rolled over the bridge to Victoria’s new Central Station.
The London, Chatham and Dover Railway had Charles Fox widen the bridge on the west side in 1866 to make room for their own tracks. In 1907 the bridge was widened to today's dimensions due to capacity bottlenecks. It was then gradually replaced by a new steel building between 1963 and 1967 .
Web links
- Grosvenor Bridge. In: Structurae
- William Humber: A Complete Treatise on Cast and Wrought Iron Bridge Construction ; Description of Victoria Bridge , pp. 189–194. Lockwood & Co., London 1870. Digitized on Google Books.
- Victoria (Grosvenor) Railway Bridge. In: Where Thames smooth waters glide. Retrieved May 26, 2013 .
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Upstream Chelsea Bridge |
River crossings of the Thames |
Victoria Line downstream tunnel Vauxhall Bridge |