Recently extended bridge VTB3 128
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Recently extended bridge VTB3 128
Image: © Robin Webster Taken: 23 Jun 2014
This bridge has been recently widened to accommodate further sidings in connection with the stabling of forthcoming 12 car Thameslink trains. Originally built for two tracks, around 1900 it was widened to six tracks, four running and two sidings, and later in the 20th century further widened for another siding*. All of these widenings used abutting brick arches of identical cross-section. This latest widening uses a flat concrete flat span. * This seems likely to have given its name to the currently plated name for the bridge, the rather odd 'Tip Siding / Lane'. There never was a lane here - it is currently a public footpath, formerly a footpath and farm link.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.108474
Longitude
-0.161519