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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 ...
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 ...
Roughly 11 million bricks were used in its construction; at the time of its completion, it was the world's largest viaduct and a major feat of engineering. The viaduct is 33.85 metres (111.1 ft) high. [3] [note 1] Since March 1975, Stockport Viaduct has been a Grade II* listed structure; [4] it remains one of the world's biggest brick ...
Construction of the UK’s longest railway bridge has been completed on the outskirts of north-west London. HS2 engineers installed the final deck segment of the 2.1-mile Colne Valley Viaduct on ...
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 ...
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]
The bridge reopened to pedestrians and cyclists on 22 August 1996. This was followed by cars and motorcycles on 30 August 1996 and was opened again to all vehicles including heavy goods vehicles on 22 December 1996. Repairs to the bridge cost £3.6 million with a further £700,000 in lost revenue from tolls. [31]
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.