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Oldest bridge in UK with shops. High Bridge: Berkshire: Reading: 1788: across the River Kennet: High Level Bridge: Tyne and Wear: Newcastle upon Tyne: 1849: I: Road and rail bridge across the River Tyne: Hockenhull Platts: Cheshire: Tarvin: C18: II: Three footbridges across the River Gowy: Holgate Bridge: North Yorkshire: York: 1911: Crosses ...
Swing bridge: II* Once carried the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway line over the River Nene: Crumlin Viaduct: Crumlin, Caerphilly, Ebbw Valley, Wales: 260 m (850 ft) 1857: Iron truss: The least expensive bridge for its size ever constructed; the highest railway viaduct in the United Kingdom; the third highest viaduct in the world ...
The first Wandsworth Bridge: Cornbrook Viaduct (Castlefield) 1877 Cornbrook Viaduct is the upper bridge, it lies just behind the lower bridge in the foreground: Great Northern Viaduct (Castlefield) 1894 The Viaduct and Potato Wharf: Llandeilo Railway Bridge: 1852 Llandeilo bridge carries the Heart of Wales railway over the River Towy: Partick ...
This article lists the oldest extant freestanding buildings in the United Kingdom.In order to qualify for the list a structure must: be a recognisable building; either incorporate features of building work from the claimed date to at least 1.5 metres (4.9 ft) in height and/or be a listed building.
The Colne Valley Viaduct is a bridge, under construction as of 2024, which will carry the High Speed 2 railway over the Colne Valley Regional Park and the Grand Union Canal, in Hillingdon, west London. When completed, its length of 3.4 kilometres (2.1 mi) and a weight of 116,000 tonnes will make it the largest railway bridge in the UK. It is ...
The following is a list and brief history of the bridges in Cambridge, England, principally those over the River Cam of which there are 26 (as of 2021).. The River Cam enters Cambridge from the south west of the city and heads north past many of the historic colleges of the University of Cambridge along the open area known as The Backs.
Construction of the bridge started immediately after the creation of the PFI in 1988. [71] It was designed by German civil engineer Hellmut Homberg , with the UK's Halcrow Group acting as category 3 check engineer, employer's agent and engineering adviser. [72] The two main caissons supporting the bridge piers were constructed in the Netherlands.
The western bridge carries High Speed 1 (HS1), the high-speed rail link that connects London with the Channel Tunnel. The rail viaduct is a 1.3 km (0.81 mi) long structure that spans the River Medway , Wouldham Road and Burham Roads in Borstal .