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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 ...
Southdown Road Skew Bridge looking along the barrel. Note the substantial retaining wall to the left of the arch. The easiest way to visualise Boucher's concept for the ribbed skew arch is to consider a regular arch bridge that carries the railway at right angles across the road and then to slice it vertically at regular intervals along the axis of its barrel, the planes all being parallel ...
Hereford Road Skew Bridge is a disused railway bridge in Ledbury, Herefordshire.Built in 1881 to carry the Ledbury and Gloucester Railway across the Hereford Road at an angle of approximately 45°, it was built as a ribbed skew arch with stone spandrels and wing walls, and ribs of blue brick.
The bridge, from the South. Swin Bridge (also 'Cockfield Bridge' or 'Haggerleases Bridge' [1] [2]) is the local name for a skew arch bridge in County Durham. [3] It was built in 1830 for the Haggerleases branch of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, crossing the River Gaunless at Cockfield.
Later railway engineers improved on the system, producing what became known as helicoidal construction that became the norm in English skew bridge building. An exact solution to the problem was determined in the form of the French, or orthogonal, design. However, this was complicated and expensive to build.
The bridge was designed by Francis Giles, engineer to the Newcastle & Carlisle Railway, and built by the contractor, John McKay. Construction began in 1832 and the bridge was completed by 1835, making it one of the earliest railway skew bridges and one of the largest of its era.
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 .
The skew arch (also known as an oblique arch) is used when the arch needs to form an oblique angle in the horizontal plane with respect to the (parallel) springings, [96] [97] for example, when a bridge crosses the river at an angle different than 90°.