IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Oldacres, MAIDENHEAD, SL6 1XH
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Oldacres, SL6 1XH by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Image Map
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Notes
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Image Listing (111 Images Found)
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Details
Distance
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Navigating northwards up the Bashire (46)
Looking from Oldacres towards Horse Guards Park
Image: © Basher Eyre
Taken: 3 Jul 2024
0.11 miles
4
Plaque at the entrance of Horse Guards Drive
Image: © Basher Eyre
Taken: 3 Jul 2024
0.12 miles
7
Brunel's Railway Bridge at Maidenhead
The bridge was designed Isambard Kingdom Brunel, engineer for the Great Western Railway. The railway from London to the West is carried across the River Thames on two brick arches, and the bridge was the widest and flattest in the world. Each span is 128 feet (39 m), with a rise of only 24 feet (7 m). The Thames Path passes under bridge, also known as the Sounding Arch because of its spectacular echo.
Image: © Stephen Daglish
Taken: 21 Aug 2005
0.15 miles
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Maidenhead Railway Bridge
I defy anyone not to be moved by the sheer engineering genius, foresight, and confidence of Isambard Kingdom Brunel's design for this bridge, which carries the Great Western Railway main line over the River Thames. The bridge actually has two of these arches, which at the time of their building in 1838 were the widest and flattest in the world. Each span is 128 feet (about 39 metres), with a rise of only 24 feet (about 7 metres). This arch is known as the Sounding Arch, because of its spectacular echo. There is a circular stone plaque giving these details on the bridge abutment just visible on the right side of the photo.
It has been claimed that the board of the Great Western Railway did not believe that the arches would stay up under the weight of the trains and ordered Brunel to leave the wooden formwork used to construct the arches in place. However, Brunel simply lowered the formwork slightly so that it had no structural effect, but appeared to be in place. Later, when the formwork was washed away in floods, but the bridge remained, the strength of the arches was accepted.
As built, the bridge carried two lines of Brunel's broad gauge track. Subsequently the bridge was widened, and now carries the four lines of standard gauge track that make up the Great Western Main Line out of London Paddington Station.
The bridge also features in J M W Turner's 1844 painting entitled Rain, Steam and Speed - The Great Western Railway, now in the National Gallery, London http://www.j-m-w-turner.co.uk/artist/turner-rain-steam.htm
Image: © Nigel Cox
Taken: 19 Jul 2006
0.15 miles
9
Maidenhead railway bridge
The famous flat arch bridge built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and opened in 1838, which everybody said would fall down. But it's still here in 2007.
Image: © Dr Neil Clifton
Taken: 27 May 1974
0.15 miles
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Railway bridge over B3028 Oldfield Road, Maidenhead
The three arches carry the main line out of Paddington.
Image: © Robin Webster
Taken: 26 Sep 2021
0.16 miles