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.

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.

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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