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Bath Road Bridge, Bridgwater

From Graces Guide

Carries the A39 road over the former Bristol and Exeter Railway, north of Bridgwater Station.

1840 'Bristol and Exeter Railway. — It will be gratifying to the Shareholders and all interested in this great undertaking, to be informed that a bridge has been lately completed for the Bath road near Bridgewater, which for beauty of workmanship is not surpassed on any other line of railway in the kingdom. The arch crossing the railway is in a very oblique direction, which greatly increases the difficulty of its construction ; it is in form a true semi-ellipse, and has preserved its tournure (since the removal of the frame work on which it was built,) in the most perfect manner.'[1]

A plate girder span was added at some point, and a pedestrian footbridge was added alongside more recently. Nothing of beauty to be found here now.


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Sources of Information

  1. ↑ Exeter and Plymouth Gazette, 8 February 1840
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