2010

SX9373 : Railway through Teignmouth

taken 14 years ago, near to Teignmouth, Devon, England

Railway through Teignmouth
Railway through Teignmouth
Looking east from the Saxe Street crossing towards the Fore Street bridge and, beyond it, the station.

Update: Condemned as weak, the Fore Street bridge was replaced by Network Rail over the weekend of 18-19 February 2012.
Fore Street bridge, Teignmouth

Fore Street bridge, once a principal route over the railway and into the town, has carried local traffic since the realignment of the A379 in the late 1980s. Consulting engineers for Network Rail, Arup, had identified unacceptable weakness in the girders supporting the carriageway together with overloading in the parapet girders. The only solution was to dismantle the bridge (which may date from the time Brunel's GWR was scythed through the town) and install a new, stronger one. The major part of the work was carried out over the weekend of 18-19 February 2012 in a highly organised operation.

Information taken from Network Rail's Prior Approval Application to Teignbridge District Council, TCP 10/049, 20 December 2011, with thanks.


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Category: Railway cutting
This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · Fore Street Bridge [14] Other Photos: · The railway slices through Teignmouth ·
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SX9373, 493 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
Robin Stott   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Thursday, 15 July, 2010   (more nearby)
Submitted
Friday, 16 July, 2010
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SX 9396 7304 [10m precision]
WGS84: 50:32.8486N 3:29.8819W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SX 9389 7302
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East-northeast (about 67 degrees)
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