Silver Jubilee Bridge

General Information

Other name(s):	Runcorn Bridge; Runcorn-Widnes Bridge
Beginning of works:	25 April 1956
Completion:	21 July 1961
Status:	in use

Structure:	Two-hinged arch bridge Truss arch bridge Through arch bridge
Function / usage:	Road bridge
Material:	Steel bridge

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Location:	Runcorn, Halton, North West England, England, United Kingdom Widnes, Halton, North West England, England, United Kingdom
Crosses:	Mersey River
Next to:	Runcorn Railway Bridge (1868)
Coordinates:	53° 20' 47.76" N 2° 44' 15.72" W

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deck	steel
arch	steel

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Structural engineering

Construction

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Prade, Marcel (1990): Les grands ponts du monde: Ponts remarquables d'Europe. Brissaud, Poitiers (France), pp. 278.
Langley, Ray (2019): The Maintenance of Silver Jubilee Bridge, UK. Presented at: ARCH 2019, 9th International Conference on Arch Bridges, 2-4 October 2019, Porto, Portugal, pp. 790-797.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29227-0_87
Langley, Ray / Hehir, John / Towler, Ian (2018): The Maintenance of Silver Jubilee Bridge, UK. Presented at: IABSE Conference: Engineering the Past, to Meet the Needs of the Future, Copenhagen, Denmark, 25-27 June 2018, pp. 267-274.
https://doi.org/10.2749/copenhagen.2018.267
Anderson, J. K. (1964): Runcorn-Widnes Bridge. In: Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, v. 29, n. 3 (November 1964), pp. 535-570, plates.
https://doi.org/10.1680/iicep.1964.9602
Silver Service. In: Bridge Design & Engineering, v. 10, n. 37 (4th Quarter 2004), pp. 63.