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The Skew Arch Bridge in Reading, Pennsylvania, also known as the Askew Bridge and nicknamed the Soap and Whiskey Bridge, is an historic skew arch bridge that was completed in 1857. Its design enabled it to carry two tracks of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad (P&R) at an angle over Sixth Street in Reading, Berks County , Pennsylvania .
A masonry skew arch bridge photographed shortly after its completion in 1898, showing the helicoidal nature of its stonework. Sickergill Skew Bridge over the River Raven at Renwick, near Penrith. A skew arch (also known as an oblique arch) is a method of construction that enables an arch bridge to span an obstacle at some angle other than a ...
Stone Arch Road Bridge, Stewartstown Railroad: ... Single-span stone skew arch: Trenton City/Calhoun Street Bridge: 1885 ... Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap.
A skew arch bridge, a masterwork of cut stone construction, is another feature of the site near the Lemon House. The bridge is 60.4 feet (18.4 m) long on the south elevation, 54.9 feet (16.7 m) long on the north elevation, and 22.2 feet (6.8 m) high. [17] It was the only bridge on the line that was built to carry a road. [17]
Skew Arch Bridge (Reading, Pennsylvania) Swin Bridge; T. Thirty-third Street Bridge in Philadelphia This page was last edited on 20 September 2024, at 09:55 (UTC) ...
Swin Bridge: County Durham: 1830: Skew arch bridge: first skew arch bridge to carry a railway: Swithland Viaduct: Swithland, Leicestershire: 1897: Brick arch: carries the preserved Great Central Railway across Swithland Reservoir: Tadcaster Viaduct: Tadcaster, North Yorkshire: 1848: Stone arch: II: built by Leeds and York Railway to cross the ...
Unusual 1888 skew arch bridge, at 70 feet (21 m) also the longest masonry arch bridge built on a Minnesota highway. Converted to pedestrian use in the 1970s. [27] 22: Commerce Building: Commerce Building: July 3, 2007 : 8 4th St. E.
The footpath on the bridge's north side was opened on 16 August 1844, coinciding with the closure of the temporary footbridge, [10] and ten days later the new bridge was fully opened. 60 feet wide, it uses a skew arch of 110 feet 9¼ inches to cross about 106 feet of water. Its 3-foot-thick arch is 20 feet tall and built from Bolton stone, and ...