SX4358 : Approaches to Royal Albert Bridge
taken 9 years ago, near to Saltash, Cornwall, England

Saltash station serves the town of Saltash in Cornwall. It is situated on the south side of the town between the Royal Albert Bridge over the River Tamar and Coombe Viaduct which spans a small tributary of the same river. The station is managed and operated by Great Western Railway.
The station opened in 1859 and is on The Cornish Main Line.
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The Cornish Main Line is a railway line in Cornwall. It runs from Penzance to Plymouth, crossing from Cornwall into Devon over the famous Royal Albert Bridge at Saltash.
It directly serves Truro, St Austell, Bodmin (by a Parkway station), and Liskeard, and it forms the backbone for rail services in Cornwall, as well as providing a direct line to London, Birmingham, Leeds and Edinburgh. There are branches off the main line serving St Ives, Falmouth, Newquay, and Looe.
It is the southernmost railway line in the United Kingdom, and the westernmost in England. The line was fully completed in 1867.
The Royal Albert Bridge is a railway bridge which spans the River Tamar between Plymouth, Devon and Saltash, Cornwall. Its unique design consists of two 455 feet lenticular iron trusses 100 feet above the water, with conventional plate-girder approach spans. This gives it a total length of 2,187.5 feet. It carries the Cornish Main Line railway in and out of Cornwall. It is adjacent to the Tamar Bridge which opened in 1962 to carry the A38 road.
The Royal Albert Bridge was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Construction commenced in 1854 and the completed bridge was opened by Prince Albert on 2 May 1859. It has attracted sightseers since its construction and has appeared in many paintings, photographs, guidebooks, postage stamps and on the UK £2 coin. Anniversary celebrations took place in 1959 and 2009.
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Saltash (Cornish: Essa) is a town in southeast Cornwall. It lies in the south east of Cornwall, facing Plymouth over the River Tamar. It is known as "the Gateway to Cornwall". Saltash means ash tree by the salt mill. Saltash is the largest town within the East Cornwall area and is one of the largest in Cornwall. Both the Royal Albert Bridge and The Tamar Bridge have their western ends in Saltash.
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