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The Colne Valley Viaduct is a bridge, under construction as of 2024, which will carry the High Speed 2 railway over the Colne Valley Regional Park and the Grand Union Canal, in Hillingdon, west London. When completed, its length of 3.4 kilometres (2.1 mi) and a weight of 116,000 tonnes will make it the largest railway bridge in the UK. It is ...
This is a list of the world's longest bridges that are more than 3 kilometers (1.9 mi) in length sorted by their full length above land and water. The main span is the longest span without any ground support.
Oldest bridge in UK with shops. High Bridge: Berkshire: Reading: 1788: across the River Kennet: High Level Bridge: Tyne and Wear: Newcastle upon Tyne: 1849: I: Road and rail bridge across the River Tyne: Hockenhull Platts: Cheshire: Tarvin: C18: II: Three footbridges across the River Gowy: Holgate Bridge: North Yorkshire: York: 1911: Crosses ...
Start of construction Year of completion Image Notes Tokaido Shinkansen: High-speed rail Japan: Taiheiyō Belt: 1.06 [2] 7.96 1959 1964 Map of Tokaidō Shinkansen: Original segment of the first shinkansen line Çanakkale 1915 Bridge: Bridge (road) Turkey: Çanakkale: 4 [3] 4.44 2017 2022 Spans two continents. Longest suspension bridge span in ...
At the time of building it was the longest bridge of its type in the world. [6] [12] The bridge cost,including approaches, was £10.5million(equivalent to £240,720,000 in 2023). [13]. [8] Princess Anne opened the bridge on 2 July 1971. [14]
The Humber Bridge is a 2.22 km (2,430 yd; 7,300 ft; 1.38 mi) single-span road suspension bridge near Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.When it opened to traffic on 24 June 1981, it was the longest of its type in the world; the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge surpassed it in 1998, and it became the thirteenth-longest by 2024.
The towers reached 160 metres (525 ft) in height in August 2015, making it the UK's tallest bridge. [43] The completed towers stand at 207 metres (679 ft). [43] On 28 April 2016, one construction worker was killed and another injured in an accident involving a crane. Work on the bridge was halted to allow an investigation to take place. [44] [45]
It is the longest stone bridge in England. The section of the bridge crossing the main flow of the river was destroyed in floods in 1795 and was replaced between 1795 and 1797, at a cost of £3,550 (equivalent to £464,400 in 2023), [3] with the present section of bridge. [2] The work was reputedly designed by Thomas Sykes, the county surveyor.