Name
North Street Iron Bridge
Start Year
1834
End Year
0
Industry Type
Transportation
Industry
highway
Company
Russell & Browns
Site Name
City
Exeter
State/County/Province
Devon
Country
great britain
Collection
Notes
A cast iron road viaduct designed in the 1830s to reduce the gradient of Exeter\'s North Street as it came down the hill to the Longbrook junction.
The bridge has six spans of 40ft, each with six cast iron arch ribs made in two pieces. The arches spring from cross girders supported on cast iron columns.
The gradient of the bridge is 1:20, falling to the north-west. It is 26ft wide and its upper level was made of cast iron plate. This was covered with concrete in 1909, which was in turn replaced with reinforced concrete in 1984-85.
The ironwork designed by Russell & Browns of Worcester was fabricated at the Blaina ironworks and shipped from Newport to Exter Basin. The masonry abutments were built by Thomas Whitaker.
OS grid reference SX916927
taken from- http://www.engineering-timelines.com/scripts/engineeringItem.asp?id=452
The bridge has six spans of 40ft, each with six cast iron arch ribs made in two pieces. The arches spring from cross girders supported on cast iron columns.
The gradient of the bridge is 1:20, falling to the north-west. It is 26ft wide and its upper level was made of cast iron plate. This was covered with concrete in 1909, which was in turn replaced with reinforced concrete in 1984-85.
The ironwork designed by Russell & Browns of Worcester was fabricated at the Blaina ironworks and shipped from Newport to Exter Basin. The masonry abutments were built by Thomas Whitaker.
OS grid reference SX916927
taken from- http://www.engineering-timelines.com/scripts/engineeringItem.asp?id=452