Kingsferry Bridge

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Kingsferry Bridge
Kingsferry Bridge
Carries 2 Lane Road
Single Track Railway
Pedestrians
Crosses The Swale
Locale Isle of Sheppey, Kent, UK
Design Vertical lift bridge
Longest span 123 feet
Width 50 feet
Vertical clearance 120 feet
Opening date 1960

The Kingsferry Bridge was designed by Mott, Hay and Anderson, and built by John Howard, with Dorman Long and Sir William Arrol. It comprises a reinforced concrete and structural steel deck, supported from portal-shaped reinforced concrete towers.

The first bridge on the site had been a railway bascule bridge built in 1860 as part of the London, Chatham and Dover Railway. This was replaced in 1904 by a Scherzer-type bascule bridge, replaced in turn by the present bridge.[1]

Swale railway station is at the southern end of the Kingsferry Bridge.

The A249 was carried on the Kingsferry Bridge until the opening of a new fixed Sheppey crossing in 2006.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Otter, Robert A.: "Civil Engineering Heritage: Southern England", Thomas Telford Publishing, 1994, p. 239
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