General Information
| Completion: | 19 September 1964 |
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| Status: | in use |
Project Type
| Function / usage: |
Railroad (railway) bridge |
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| Material: |
Prestressed concrete bridge |
| Structure: |
Rigid frame bridge with V-shaped legs |
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Location
| Location: |
Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand |
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| Crosses: |
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| Replaces: |
Claudelands Bridge (1883)
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| Coordinates: | 37° 47' 3.74" S 175° 16' 58.56" E |
Technical Information
Dimensions
| total length | 143 m | |
| number of spans | 7 | |
| number of tracks | 1 | |
| track gauge | 1 067 mm |
Materials
| deck |
prestressed concrete
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|---|---|
| piers |
reinforced concrete
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| abutments |
reinforced concrete
|
Excerpt from Wikipedia
Claudelands Bridge is a dual-lane truss road bridge over the Waikato River, joining Claudelands with Hamilton Central. In 1968 it was converted from the old railway bridge, which had been completed about the end of July 1883. The road bridge was given a Category 2 listing in 1985.
A new railway bridge, opened on 19 September 1964, a few metres downstream, replaced the old with a 7-span, 143 m (469 ft) pre-stressed concrete box girder bridge. The spans are supported by reinforced concrete piers, resting on in-situ cast piles. The bridge, built by Wilkinson and Davies Construction Co Ltd (involved in a 1959 contract law case and deregistered in 1967), is about 20 ft (6.1 m) lower than the road bridge, being 18 m (59 ft) above the normal river level. It was the first bridge in the country to be stressed with a 100-ton Freyssinet cable.
Text imported from Wikipedia article "Claudelands Bridge" and modified on November 29, 2024 according to the CC-BY-SA 4.0 International license.
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28/11/2024
