At last, this was the final bridge in the IABSE Study Tour of north-east England.
Completed in 1983 to a design by Mott, Hay and Anderson, the present Redheugh Bridge is on the site of two former crossings. The first was the most interesting: an innovative cable-stayed design by Thomas Bouch, which survived from 1871 to 1897.
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The bridge has a twin-cell single box configuration, with utility services carried inside the box - gas pipes in one cell, and electricity cables and a water pipe in the other cell. Holes in the concrete box are provided for ventilation and as drainage in case the water main should leak.
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That concludes my tour of bridges in the north east of England. I have a backlog of other bridges to report on here, and hope to start my next series of reports soon.
Further information:
- Google maps / Bing maps
- Wikipedia
- Structurae
- Bridges on the Tyne
- The New Redheugh Bridge (Lord, Gill, and Murray, Proc. ICE, 1984)
- Civil Engineering Heritage: Northern England
(Rennison, 1996)
- Crossing the Tyne
(Manders and Potts, 2001)
- An Encyclopaedia of Britain's Bridges (McFetrich, 2010)
1 comment:
At first glance, I thought you had wandered to Porto
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