Former Townsend Avenue railway bridge
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Former Townsend Avenue railway bridge by Stephen Craven as part of the Geograph project.
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Former Townsend Avenue railway bridge
Image: © Stephen Craven Taken: 4 Nov 2017
The reason for this substantial structure is that the railway crossed the dual carriageway Townsend Avenue at this point on a highly skewed alignment. Therefore a deep truss bridge that contains the stresses within itself would have been preferable to a traditional arch. See Image for a side view.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.442006
Longitude
-2.932454