Warrington and Altrincham Junction Railway River Mersey Bridge
General Information
| Completion: | 1908 |
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| Status: | in use |
Project Type
| Structure: |
Through truss bridge Lattice truss bridge |
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| Material: |
Steel bridge |
| Support conditions: |
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| Function / usage: |
Railroad (railway) bridge |
| Structure: |
Parallel-chord truss bridge |
Location
| Location: |
Warrington, Cheshire, North West England, England, United Kingdom |
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| Crosses: |
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| Coordinates: | 53° 23' 5.48" N 2° 35' 33.32" W |
Technical Information
Dimensions
| span | 57.912 m | |
| number of spans | 1 | |
| abutments | number | 2 |
| deck | number of longitudinal girders | 3 |
Materials
| girder |
wrought iron
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| truss |
steel
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Structural Description
The bridge consists of two external lattice trusses and a middle box girder in between the two tracks. This arrangement stems from the original bridge built in 1853, a wrought iron tubular structure, which was rebuilt with lateral steel truss in 1908 while the the central wrought iron box girder was retained.
Participants
Current owner
Relevant Web Sites
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Relevant Publications
- (2023): Assessment of River Mersey Steel Truss Bridge Using Non-Linear Finite Element Analysis. Presented at: IABSE Symposium: Long Span Bridges, Istanbul, Turkey, 26-28 April 2023, pp. 480-500.
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30/08/2023 - Last updated on:
30/08/2023
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