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The Maidenhead Railway Bridge may have the two longest arches made of bricks, 39 metres (128 ft). Building new masonry arch bridges today is a solely Chinese business. There are 18 stone arch bridges with spans exceeding 100 m (330 ft). [1] There are probably several dozens of stone arches exceeding 40m in the Fujian province only. [2]
Roman bridges are characterized by their robust construction and the use of semi-circular arches, which are arches with a circular arc that rest on thick piers with a width approximately half the span of the arch. [4] The Milvius bridge over the Tiber in Rome. The Aemilius Bridge, now designated Ponte Rotto, is the oldest extant stone bridge in ...
The bridge is a single span stone arch, formed out of rough-cut and rubble stone, laid in irregular courses. The arch spans about 37 feet (11 m), and rises about 16 feet (4.9 m) above Tannery Brook. The arch is about 14 feet (4.3 m) wide, providing enough space for a single travel lane by modern vehicles.
Starrucca Viaduct is a stone arch bridge that spans Starrucca Creek near Lanesboro, Pennsylvania, in the United States.Completed in 1848 at a cost of $320,000 (equal to $11,268,923 today), it was at the time the world's largest stone railway viaduct and was thought to be the most expensive railway bridge as well.
Brick deck arch: Higginsville Road Bridges: 1889, 1890, 1893 ... Warrington Stone Bridge: ... Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap.
The Follett Stone Arch Bridge Historic District encompasses a group of four stone arch bridges in southwestern Townshend, Vermont. All four bridges were built by James Otis Follett , a local self-taught mason, between 1894 and 1910, and represent the single greatest concentration of surviving bridges he built.
Stone bridges by country (16 C) A. Stone arch bridges (3 C, 56 P) Pages in category "Stone bridges" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.
Rockland Road Bridge is a historic stone and brick arch bridge located at Piermont in Rockland County, New York. It was built in 1874 and spans Sparkill Creek, a tributary of the Hudson River. [2] The bridge is located southwest of the Sparkill Creek Drawbridge. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. [1]