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Until the bridge was completed and opened, through passengers were carried from one station to the other by coach, using the 1816 road bridge across the River Wye. 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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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Chepstow is a historic walled border town and ancient port, situated at the southern end of the Wye Valley, two hours from London. The line continues east from the station to Gloucester over the Chepstow railway bridge. It was formerly the junction station for the Wye Valley Railway to Monmouth Troy station until this line closed to passengers ...
This was about a mile from Chepstow railway station, [i] at the road bridge close to the future junction of the Wye Valley line [1] (which opened in November 1876). [2] It was opened on 19 September 1851 and served as a temporary station while the Chepstow railway bridge was being constructed across the river to link up with the rest of the ...
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.