Windsor Railway Bridge
Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 13 ″ N , 0 ° 37 ′ 5 ″ W.
| Windsor Railway Bridge | ||
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| use | Railway bridge | |
| Convicted | Slough to Windsor & Eton Line | |
| Subjugated | Thames | |
| place | Windsor | |
| overall length | 62 m | |
| Longest span | 57 m | |
| height | 5.41 m | |
| opening | 1849 | |
| planner | Isambard Kingdom Brunel | |
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Windsor Railway Bridge is a wrought iron arch bridge designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel near Windsor , England , which runs the branch line of what is now the Great Western Railway from Slough to Windsor to the terminus at Windsor and Eton Central Station . The bridge crosses the River Thames on Deadwater Ait Island .
Construction
The bridge has three parallel parabolic girders with a center distance of 5.34 m each for the originally double-track railway line. As the bridge crosses the river at an angle, the 62 m long girders are offset to one another. The span is 57 m.
The bridge is the oldest wrought iron railway bridge that is still in regular use today. It is a predecessor of Brunel's last masterpiece, the Royal Albert Bridge between Plymouth and Saltash. The bridge has been a Grade II * protected monument since 1975 .
opening
The bridge was built by George Hannet for what was then the Great Western Railway . The construction of the line and the bridge had been delayed by an objection from the Provost of Eton College , so that they could not be opened until 1849. The one kilometer long brick viaduct adjoining the bridge was built between 1861 and 1865 and replaced a previously existing wooden structure.
use
The bridge was designed to carry two tracks. The upstream track was removed in the 1960s. This half of the bridge now leads water pipes over the river.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Windsor Railway Bridge (Item 40391) Images of England, Historic England, accessed November 5, 2015.
- ^ William Humber: A Complete Treatise on Cast and Wrought Iron Bridge Construction. Lockwood & Co., London, 1870, pp. 245-246. (Description of Windsor Bridge 1849)
- ↑ Isambard Kingdom Brunel website ( Memento from January 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
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upstream Queen Elizabeth Bridge |
River crossings of the Thames |
downstream Windsor Bridge |