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The railway bridge was opened to public use for the first time on 19 July 1852; Chepstow East station closed at the same time as redundant. Originally there was only one line of railway over the bridge; a second was brought into use on 18 April 1853.
The bridge crosses a river with one of the highest tidal ranges in the world. It carried the main A48 road between Newport and Gloucester until 1988, when a new road bridge was opened downstream alongside Chepstow Railway Bridge. The road bridge now carries local traffic between Chepstow and Tutshill. It is a Grade I listed building.
Chepstow railway station is a part of the British railway system owned by Network Rail and is operated by Transport for Wales. Chepstow station is on the Gloucester to Newport Line, 141 miles 33 chains (227.6 km) from the zero point at Paddington, measured via Stroud. [2] It is 330 yards (300 m) from the town centre, at Station Road.
Holme Lacy Bridge - Ballingham Railway Bridge: grid reference: 1855-1859 Ballingham: Carried the closed Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway over the river, the bridge decking is demolished. [4] Hoarwithy Bridge - Sellack Suspension Bridge II: Foy Bridge - Strangford Railway Bridge - Closed Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway line. Decking ...
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. ... GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) Railway bridges in Gloucestershire. ... Chepstow Railway Bridge; G.
The Wye Valley Railway was a standard gauge railway that ran for nearly 15 miles (24 km) along the Lower Wye Valley between the towns of Chepstow and Monmouth, crossing several times between Wales and England. Opened on 1 November 1876, it was leased to, and worked by, the Great Western Railway (GWR), before being fully absorbed by the GWR in 1905.
The 1816 Old Wye Bridge The Bridge and Castle at Chepstow at the end of the 18th century Chepstow is located close to junction 2 of the M48 motorway , at the western end of the Severn Bridge . The bridge was opened in 1966 and has the second longest span of any bridge in the UK; it replaced the Aust-Beachley ferry .
World's earliest surviving iron railway bridge, built for a tramway to the Cyfarthfa Ironworks. [109] Clynnog Fawr, Pont y Cim: 1612: II: Caernarfonshire Gwynedd Near Pontllyfni: an inscribed stone on the bridge reads "Pont Y Cim, Catring Bwkle hath give 20 povends to mack this brighe. 1612". [110] Llanberis, Pont y Gromlech: II ...