2012

SX9473 : Beams for Fore Street bridge are loaded

taken 13 years ago, near to Teignmouth, Devon, England

Beams for Fore Street bridge are loaded
Beams for Fore Street bridge are loaded
Just after 6pm GMT on a sunny February Saturday. Teignmouth station car park. The light is going as a hydraulic crane loads pre-cast concrete beams on to a flat truck (did they come by rail?). It will take them the short distance to Fore Street where a bridge is being replaced over the weekend.
Fore Street bridge, Teignmouth :: SX9373

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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Robin Stott   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Saturday, 18 February, 2012   (more nearby)
Submitted
Monday, 18 June, 2012
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OSGB36: geotagged! SX 9424 7308 [10m precision]
WGS84: 50:32.8733N 3:29.6456W
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OSGB36: geotagged! SX 9414 7309
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