Longton Railway Bridge - Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
N 52° 59.398 W 002° 08.168
30U E 557987 N 5871503
This cantilever bridge, which is a local landmark, is located at Times Square in Longton.
Waymark Code: WMV20Y
Location: West Midlands, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 02/10/2017
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Coordinates given are for the pavement near to the footpath at the corner of the Crown Hotel on King Street.
The cantilever bridge (9 NSS) was completed in 1889 and carries the Crewe to Derby railway line. It is owned and maintained by Network Rail.
In 2013 the bridge under went a £1.6 million refurbishment which repainted and restored the landmark bridge.
A cantilever bridge is a bridge built using cantilevers, structures that project horizontally into space, supported on only one end. For small footbridges, the cantilevers may be simple beams.
However, large cantilever bridges designed to handle road or rail traffic use trusses built from structural steel, or box girders built from prestressed concrete.
The steel truss cantilever bridge was a major engineering breakthrough when first put into practice, as it can span distances of over 1,500 feet (460 m), and can be more easily constructed at difficult crossings by virtue of using little or no falsework. Wikipedia : (
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Some photographs of the location in the past can be seen at the following links. (
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