Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Androidâ„¢ device!
Download
Faster access than browser!
 

Chepstow Railway Bridge

Index Chepstow Railway Bridge

Chepstow Railway Bridge was built to the instructions of Isambard Kingdom Brunel in 1852. [1]

47 relations: A48 road, Abutment, Admiralty, Arch bridge, Aust Ferry, Box girder, Britannia Bridge, Chepstow, Chepstow East railway station, Chepstow railway station, Coach (carriage), Conwy Railway Bridge, Cornwall, Cornwall Railway, Eaton Hodgkinson, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, Great Western Railway, High Level Bridge, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Limestone, List of bridges in Wales, List of crossings of the River Wye, List of railway bridges and viaducts in the United Kingdom, Listed building, Liverpool, Mabey Group, Menai Strait, Monmouthshire, Newcastle upon Tyne, River Conwy, River Dee, Wales, River Tamar, River Wye, Robert Stephenson, Royal Albert Bridge, Saltash, Sediment, South Wales Railway, Suspension bridge, Swansea, The Illustrated London News, Tied-arch bridge, Truss bridge, Wales, William Fairbairn, Windsor Railway Bridge.

A48 road

The A48 is a major trunk road in Great Britain.

New!!: Chepstow Railway Bridge and A48 road · See more »

Abutment

In engineering, abutment refers to the substructure at the ends of a bridge span or dam whereon the structure's superstructure rests or contacts.

New!!: Chepstow Railway Bridge and Abutment · See more »

Admiralty

The Admiralty, originally known as the Office of the Admiralty and Marine Affairs, was the government department responsible for the command of the Royal Navy firstly in the Kingdom of England, secondly in the Kingdom of Great Britain, and from 1801 to 1964, the United Kingdom and former British Empire.

New!!: Chepstow Railway Bridge and Admiralty · See more »

Arch bridge

An arch bridge is a bridge with abutments at each end shaped as a curved arch.

New!!: Chepstow Railway Bridge and Arch bridge · See more »

Aust Ferry

Aust Ferry or Beachley Ferry was a ferry service that operated across the River Severn between Aust and Beachley both in Gloucestershire, England.

New!!: Chepstow Railway Bridge and Aust Ferry · See more »

Box girder

A box or tubular girder is a girder that forms an enclosed tube with multiple walls, rather than an ibeam or H-beam.

New!!: Chepstow Railway Bridge and Box girder · See more »

Britannia Bridge

Britannia Bridge (Pont Britannia) is a bridge across the Menai Strait between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales.

New!!: Chepstow Railway Bridge and Britannia Bridge · See more »

Chepstow

Chepstow (Cas-gwent) is a town in Monmouthshire, Wales, adjoining the border with Gloucestershire, England.

New!!: Chepstow Railway Bridge and Chepstow · See more »

Chepstow East railway station

Chepstow East railway station was a station on the South Wales Railway (now the Gloucester to Newport Line).

New!!: Chepstow Railway Bridge and Chepstow East railway station · See more »

Chepstow railway station

Chepstow railway station is a part of the British railway system owned by Network Rail and is operated by Arriva Trains Wales.

New!!: Chepstow Railway Bridge and Chepstow railway station · See more »

Coach (carriage)

A coach is originally a large, usually closed, four-wheeled carriage with two or more horses harnessed as a team, controlled by a coachman and/or one or more postilions.

New!!: Chepstow Railway Bridge and Coach (carriage) · See more »

Conwy Railway Bridge

The Conwy Railway Bridge carries the North Wales coast railway line across the River Conwy between Llandudno Junction and the town of Conwy.

New!!: Chepstow Railway Bridge and Conwy Railway Bridge · See more »

Cornwall

Cornwall (Kernow) is a county in South West England in the United Kingdom.

New!!: Chepstow Railway Bridge and Cornwall · See more »

Cornwall Railway

The Cornwall Railway was a broad gauge railway from Plymouth in Devon to Falmouth in Cornwall, England, built in the second half of the nineteenth century.

New!!: Chepstow Railway Bridge and Cornwall Railway · See more »

Eaton Hodgkinson

Eaton A. Hodgkinson FRS (26 February 1789 – 18 June 1861) was an English engineer, a pioneer of the application of mathematics to problems of structural design.

New!!: Chepstow Railway Bridge and Eaton Hodgkinson · See more »

Gloucester

Gloucester is a city and district in Gloucestershire, England, of which it is the county town.

New!!: Chepstow Railway Bridge and Gloucester · See more »

Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire (formerly abbreviated as Gloucs. in print but now often as Glos.) is a county in South West England.

New!!: Chepstow Railway Bridge and Gloucestershire · See more »

Great Western Railway

The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the south-west and west of England, the Midlands, and most of Wales.

New!!: Chepstow Railway Bridge and Great Western Railway · See more »

High Level Bridge

The High Level Bridge is a road and railway bridge spanning the River Tyne between Newcastle upon Tyne and Gateshead in North East England.

New!!: Chepstow Railway Bridge and High Level Bridge · See more »

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Isambard Kingdom Brunel (9 April 1806 – 15 September 1859), was an English mechanical and civil engineer who is considered "one of the most ingenious and prolific figures in engineering history", "one of the 19th-century engineering giants", and "one of the greatest figures of the Industrial Revolution, changed the face of the English landscape with his groundbreaking designs and ingenious constructions".

New!!: Chepstow Railway Bridge and Isambard Kingdom Brunel · See more »

Limestone

Limestone is a sedimentary rock, composed mainly of skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral, forams and molluscs.

New!!: Chepstow Railway Bridge and Limestone · See more »

List of bridges in Wales

This list of bridges in Wales lists bridges of particular historical, scenic, architectural or engineering interest in Wales.

New!!: Chepstow Railway Bridge and List of bridges in Wales · See more »

List of crossings of the River Wye

Crossings of the River Wye in the UK cover the whole length of the from its source to the River Severn.

New!!: Chepstow Railway Bridge and List of crossings of the River Wye · See more »

List of railway bridges and viaducts in the United Kingdom

This is a list of viaducts and significant bridges of the United Kingdom's railways, past and present.

New!!: Chepstow Railway Bridge and List of railway bridges and viaducts in the United Kingdom · See more »

Listed building

A listed building, or listed structure, is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, Cadw in Wales, and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency in Northern Ireland.

New!!: Chepstow Railway Bridge and Listed building · See more »

Liverpool

Liverpool is a city in North West England, with an estimated population of 491,500 in 2017.

New!!: Chepstow Railway Bridge and Liverpool · See more »

Mabey Group

The Mabey Group is a British-based group of engineering companies, which specialises in bridging, steel fabrication, plant hire and construction products.

New!!: Chepstow Railway Bridge and Mabey Group · See more »

Menai Strait

The Menai Strait (Afon Menai, the "River Menai") is a narrow stretch of shallow tidal water about long, which separates the island of Anglesey from the mainland of Wales.

New!!: Chepstow Railway Bridge and Menai Strait · See more »

Monmouthshire

Monmouthshire (Sir Fynwy) is a county in south east Wales.

New!!: Chepstow Railway Bridge and Monmouthshire · See more »

Newcastle upon Tyne

Newcastle upon Tyne, commonly known as Newcastle, is a city in Tyne and Wear, North East England, 103 miles (166 km) south of Edinburgh and 277 miles (446 km) north of London on the northern bank of the River Tyne, from the North Sea.

New!!: Chepstow Railway Bridge and Newcastle upon Tyne · See more »

River Conwy

The River Conwy (Afon Conwy) is a river in north Wales.

New!!: Chepstow Railway Bridge and River Conwy · See more »

River Dee, Wales

The River Dee (Afon Dyfrdwy, Deva Fluvius) is a river in the United Kingdom.

New!!: Chepstow Railway Bridge and River Dee, Wales · See more »

River Tamar

The Tamar (Dowr Tamar) is a river in south west England, that forms most of the border between Devon (to the east) and Cornwall (to the west).

New!!: Chepstow Railway Bridge and River Tamar · See more »

River Wye

The River Wye (Afon Gwy) is the fifth-longest river in the UK, stretching some from its source on Plynlimon in mid Wales to the Severn estuary.

New!!: Chepstow Railway Bridge and River Wye · See more »

Robert Stephenson

Robert Stephenson FRS (16 October 1803 – 12 October 1859) was an early railway and civil engineer.

New!!: Chepstow Railway Bridge and Robert Stephenson · See more »

Royal Albert Bridge

The Royal Albert Bridge is a railway bridge which spans the River Tamar in England between Plymouth, Devon and Saltash, Cornwall.

New!!: Chepstow Railway Bridge and Royal Albert Bridge · See more »

Saltash

Saltash is a town and civil parish in southeast Cornwall, England, UK.

New!!: Chepstow Railway Bridge and Saltash · See more »

Sediment

Sediment is a naturally occurring material that is broken down by processes of weathering and erosion, and is subsequently transported by the action of wind, water, or ice, and/or by the force of gravity acting on the particles.

New!!: Chepstow Railway Bridge and Sediment · See more »

South Wales Railway

The South Wales Railway (Rheilffordd De Cymru) was an early main line which connected the Great Western Railway near Gloucester with South Wales.

New!!: Chepstow Railway Bridge and South Wales Railway · See more »

Suspension bridge

A suspension bridge is a type of bridge in which the deck (the load-bearing portion) is hung below suspension cables on vertical suspenders.

New!!: Chepstow Railway Bridge and Suspension bridge · See more »

Swansea

Swansea (Abertawe), is a coastal city and county, officially known as the City and County of Swansea (Dinas a Sir Abertawe) in Wales, UK.

New!!: Chepstow Railway Bridge and Swansea · See more »

The Illustrated London News

The Illustrated London News appeared first on Saturday 14 May 1842, as the world's first illustrated weekly news magazine.

New!!: Chepstow Railway Bridge and The Illustrated London News · See more »

Tied-arch bridge

A tied-arch bridge is an arch bridge in which the outward-directed horizontal forces of the arch(es) are borne as tension by a chord tying both arch ends, rather than by the ground or the bridge foundations.

New!!: Chepstow Railway Bridge and Tied-arch bridge · See more »

Truss bridge

A truss bridge is a bridge whose load-bearing superstructure is composed of a truss, a structure of connected elements usually forming triangular units.

New!!: Chepstow Railway Bridge and Truss bridge · See more »

Wales

Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain.

New!!: Chepstow Railway Bridge and Wales · See more »

William Fairbairn

Sir William Fairbairn, 1st Baronet of Ardwick (19 February 1789 – 18 August 1874) was a Scottish civil engineer, structural engineer and shipbuilder.

New!!: Chepstow Railway Bridge and William Fairbairn · See more »

Windsor Railway Bridge

Windsor Railway Bridge is a wrought iron 'bow and string' bridge in Windsor, Berkshire, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

New!!: Chepstow Railway Bridge and Windsor Railway Bridge · See more »

Redirects here:

Chepstow Bridge, Chepstow railway bridge.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chepstow_Railway_Bridge

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »