General Information
Project Type
| Structure: |
Deck arch bridge |
|---|---|
| Function / usage: |
Railroad (railway) bridge |
| Material: |
Reinforced concrete bridge |
| Plan view: |
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Location
| Location: |
Kensington and Chelsea, London, England, United Kingdom Battersea, Wandsworth, London, England, United Kingdom |
|---|---|
| Crosses: |
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| Replaces: |
Grosvenor Bridge (1860)
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| Coordinates: | 51° 29' 4.47" N 0° 8' 50.69" W |
Technical Information
Dimensions
| total length | 283.46 m | |
| span lengths | 19.81 m - 4 x 53.34 m - 21.34 m | |
| number of spans | 6 | |
| number of tracks | 10 | |
| deck | deck width | ca. 54 m |
Materials
| piers |
masonry
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|---|---|
| arches |
reinforced concrete
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Excerpt from Wikipedia
Grosvenor Bridge, originally known as, and alternatively called Victoria Railway Bridge, is a railway bridge over the River Thames in London, between Vauxhall Bridge and Chelsea Bridge. Originally constructed in 1860, and widened in 1865 and 1907, the bridge was extensively rebuilt and widened again in the 1960s as an array of ten parallel bridges.
History
The original bridge was constructed in the mid-nineteenth century in two stages: the first bridge was built by the Victoria Station and Pimlico Railway between 1859 and 1860 at a cost of £84,000 to carry two tracks into Victoria Station; it was the first railway bridge across the Thames in central London. The engineer was Sir John Fowler.
The bridge was widened by four tracks on the eastern side for the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway and London, Chatham and Dover Railway between 1865 and 1866, at a cost of £245,000. Sir Charles Fox was the engineer.
In 1907 the bridge was widened again with a further track, on the western side, for the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway.
In 1963–67, the structure of the bridge was completely renewed and modernized, leaving only the cores of the original piers. At the same time, a tenth track was added in a space formerly used for gas mains. To minimize disruption to traffic, each track was renewed separately, and put back into service before the next one was closed. The designer for this work was Freeman Fox & Partners, and the project engineer was A. H. Cantrell, chief civil engineer of the Southern Region of British Rail. It was said to be the busiest railway bridge in the world with 1000 trains crossing per day in 1968.
Location
On the north bank is Pimlico to the north and east and Chelsea to the west; the Lister Hospital and the Royal Chelsea Hospital lie immediately to the north west. On the south bank is Nine Elms to the east and Battersea to the west. Battersea Power Station is immediately to the south of the bridge, and Battersea Park to the south west.
Text imported from Wikipedia article "Grosvenor Bridge" and modified on April 27, 2022 according to the CC-BY-SA 4.0 International license.
Participants
- Freeman Fox & Partners
- Bernard H. North (designer) (substructure)
Relevant Web Sites
Relevant Publications
- (1972): Railway Bridge Construction. Some Recent Developments. Hutchinson Eductational Ltd, London (United Kingdom), pp. 30-35.
- (1966): La reconstruction du pont de Grosvenor (Londres). In: Acier = Stahl = Steel, v. 31 (September 1966), pp. 385-392.
- (1967): The Reconstruction of the Grosvenor Railway Bridge. In: Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, v. 36, n. 4 (April 1967), pp. 721-768.
- (1981): Thames Crossings. Bridges, Tunnels and Ferries. David & Charles, Newton Abbot (United Kingdom), pp. 197-198.
- About this
data sheet - Structure-ID
20003154 - Published on:
23/02/2002 - Last updated on:
10/04/2022
