Wearmouth Bridge
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Template:Use British English Script error: No such module "Infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Wearmouth Bridge is a through arch bridge across the River Wear in Sunderland, England. It is the final bridge over the river before its mouth with the North Sea.
Original bridge
Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote". The original Wearmouth Bridge was designed by Thomas Paine and opened in 1796. In 1805 the bridge was repaired, and between 1857 and 1859 it was reconstructed by Robert Stephenson.
History
To accommodate the growing volume of traffic, construction began on the current bridge in 1927. It was designed by Mott, Hay and Anderson and fabricated by the famous bridge building firm of Sir William Arrol & Co. at their Dalmarnock Ironworks in Glasgow (they also built the famous Forth Rail Bridge and the steel structure of Tower Bridge in London).[1] The new bridge was built around the old one to allow the road to remain open.[2] It was opened on 31 October 1929 by the Duke of York (who would later become King George VI).[3]
The cost of the bridge amounted to £231,943 of which £12,000 was spent on dismantling the old bridge.[3]
The adjoining Monkwearmouth Railway Bridge was built in 1879, and extended the railway south from Monkwearmouth to the centre of Sunderland.[4]
The bridge carries the A183 road between Chester-le-Street and South Shields and the A1018 which was the old route of the A19 until the bypass was built leading to the Tyne Tunnel. It is a Grade II listed building.[5]
Gallery
Images of the Wearmouth Bridge
|
|---|
References
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
- ↑ 'The Sir William Arrol Collection', Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland contains many pictures of Wearside Bridge under Construction
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ a b Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Template:NHLE
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
External links
Script error: No such module "Side box".
Script error: No such module "Navbox". Script error: No such module "Authority control".
- Pages with script errors
- Pages with broken file links
- Pages using infobox bridge with empty coordinates parameter
- Bridges across the River Wear
- Bridges completed in 1929
- Bridges in Tyne and Wear
- Through arch bridges in the United Kingdom
- Transport in the City of Sunderland
- Grade II listed buildings in Tyne and Wear
- Grade II listed bridges
- Former toll bridges in England
- Sunderland