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Disused railway bridge
In fact, this is two bridges.
The railway which once crossed this bridge in the foreground has long gone.
Immediately behind it is a modern bridge which carries the A4048 which was realigned at this point when the Chartist Bridge http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/601707 was constructed.
The location of this picture is just to the right of centre in this view http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/872167 .
Image: © Robin Drayton
Taken: 8 Oct 2009
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Chartist Bridge, Blackwood
Image: © John Lord
Taken: 23 Aug 2017
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Chartist Bridge, Blackwood
Image: © John Lord
Taken: 23 Aug 2017
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View near the Chartist Bridge
Taken from near to the western end of the Chartist Bridge and showing the A4048 northwards towards Tredegar.
Image: © Robin Drayton
Taken: 3 Jul 2008
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Roundabout at the west end of Chartist Bridge
Image: © Ian S
Taken: 25 May 2014
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Chartist Bridge, Blackwood
For details of this bridge see http://www.arup.com/bridges/project.cfm?pageid=8826
Image: © Robin Drayton
Taken: 2 Nov 2007
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Chartist Bridge (detail)
http://www.arup.com/bridges/project.cfm?pageid=8826
Image: © Robin Drayton
Taken: 3 Jul 2008
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Chartist Bridge / Pont y Siartwyr across the Sirhowy Valley at Blackwood
A pretty stunning and attractive newish (2005) bridge which commemorates the Chartist movement locally back in the winter of 1839. So doubly striking and significant.
The Chartist Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge some 230m long, supported 30m above the wooded valley floor by a 90m A-frame pylon. Difficulties with mining related subsidence during construction, and in its foreseeable lifetime, led the Cardiff-based Ove-Arup design team to allow the bridge 'to breathe' if settlement does occur. The road bridge and the Sirhowy Enterprise Way, of which it forms a key part, are owned and operated by Costain & Lang Construction in a JV, under a 30 year DBFO (Design, Build, Finance, Operate) agreement and now
links the east and west sides of the Sirhowy Valley, which previously necessitated a frustrating detour down, or up, a steep 1-in-4 hill road on the valley bottom, known locally as the Rhiw.
Image: © Jeremy Bolwell
Taken: 14 Oct 2012
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Roundabout and Chartist Bridge
Situated at the western end of the Chartist Bridge.
Image: © Robin Drayton
Taken: 3 Jul 2008
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Ordnance Survey Cut Mark
This OS cut mark can be found on NW buttress/wall of the old railway bridge which runs under High Street. It marks a point 179.478m above mean sea level.
Image: © Adrian Dust
Taken: 5 Feb 2021
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