Albert Edward Bridge
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The Albert Edward Bridge is a railway bridge spanning the River Severn at Coalbrookdale in Shropshire, England. Opened on 1 November 1864, its design is almost identical to Victoria Bridge which carries the Severn Valley Railway over the Severn between Arley and Bewdley in Worcestershire. It carries the freight only railway line between Lightmoor Junction and Ironbridge Power Station. It was designed by John Fowler, and is a 200-foot span cast iron arch bridge, with four arch ribs each of nine parts bolted together. The moulds for the radiused beam castings for the bridge were prepared by Thomas Parker at the Coalbrookdale Iron Company.
The bridge is a Listed Building, Grade II.
The bridge's timber and wrought iron deck was replaced by a structural steel deck in 1933. It may be one of the last large cast iron railway bridges to have been built.[1]
It is thought the Telford Steam Railway have aspirations to run trains over the bridge as part of their southern extension to Buildwas.
[edit] References
- Cragg, R., Civil Engineering Heritage - Wales & West Central England, Thomas Telford Publishing, 2nd edn., 1997, ISBN 0-7277-2576-9
- Listed status at Shrewsbury & Atcham Borough Council and English Heritage
[edit] Notes
- ^ Cragg, p.240
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