Kew Railway Bridge
Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 3 ″ N , 0 ° 16 ′ 45 ″ W.
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| use | Railway bridge | |
| Convicted | North London Line , District Line | |
| Subjugated | Thames | |
| Entertained by | Network Rail | |
| construction | Lattice girder bridge | |
| overall length | 1755 m | |
| Number of openings | 5 | |
| Pillar spacing | 35 m | |
| opening | January 1, 1869 | |
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Kew Railway Bridge , also Strand-on-the-Green Bridge, is a railway bridge over the River Thames in London between Kew and Strand-on-the-Green , Chiswick . It is on the North London Line , a railway line operated by London Overground , which runs from Richmond to North Woolwich and bypasses the city center to the north. The bridge is also used by the London Underground's District Line . To the north is Gunnersbury station , south of Kew Gardens station .
The 175 meter long bridge was designed by WR Galbraith and built by Brassey & Ogilvie. It consists of five wrought-iron lattice girder fields, each 35 meters long , which lie on cast-iron pillars.
On January 1, 1869, the bridge was opened by the London and South Western Railway . Since June 1, 1877, it has also been used by the District Line. Today the bridge is owned by the railway infrastructure company Network Rail . The two tracks of the bridge are both of a third rail designated busbar with +420 V DC , as well as with the fourth rail with -210 V in the middle of the tracks as a return conductor equipped for the London Underground trains.
The soffit of the bridge appears in a scene from the Doctor Who episode The Dalek Invasion of Earth .
Web links
- Kew Railway Bridge. In: Structurae
- Kew Railway Bridge. In: Where Thames smooth waters glide. Retrieved May 28, 2013 .
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upriver Kew Bridge |
River crossings of the Thames |
downstream Chiswick Bridge |