Tavy Bridge

Tavy Bridge
Coordinates 50°25′57″N 4°11′01″W / 50.4326207°N 4.1835809°W / 50.4326207; -4.1835809Coordinates: 50°25′57″N 4°11′01″W / 50.4326207°N 4.1835809°W / 50.4326207; -4.1835809
Carries Tamar Valley Line
Crosses Mouth of River Tavy
Locale Bere Ferrers
Maintained by Network Rail
Characteristics
Total length 453 metres (1,486 ft)
Width 10 metres (33 ft)
Longest span Seventeen
Piers in water Sixteen

Tavy Bridge is a railway bridge across the mouth of the River Tavy just east of its confluence with the River Tamar.[1] It was built c1890 by the Plymouth, Devonport and South Western Junction Railway (PDSWJ), headed by William Hardy to carry the line from St Budeaux to Bere Alston,[2] now part of the Tamar Valley Line.

Structure

The centre of the bridge is made up of eight iron tied-arch sections supported by seven pairs of cast iron pillars.[3]

To north and south, sections of stone arch connect the centre section to the shore, two arches to the north and seven to the south.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Ordnance Survey Landranger Sheet 201 Plymouth & Launceston area, 1:50000, 1988.
  2. ↑ Cheesman, AJ (1967). The Plymouth, Devonport and South Western Junction Railway. Blandford Forum: Oakwood Press.
  3. 1 2 Wikimedia Commons photo of Tavy Bridge

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