Battersea Railway Bridge
51.473055555556 - 0.17944444444444Koordinaten: 51 ° 28 ' 23 " N, 0 ° 10' 46 " W
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The Battersea Railway Bridge ( officially Cremorne Bridge, originally Battersea New Bridge ) is a railway bridge over the River Thames in London. It is used by the four-pronged West London Line which travels around the city center to the west and connects the Clapham Junction and Willesden Junction.
The bridge is 220 meters long, along with the viaducts on both banks of the river 387 meters. The main bridge consists of five wrought iron arches resting on masonry piers. One of the viaduct on the north side was broken to lead the footpath along the river by the bridge.
Responsible for the construction was the chief engineer of the railway company, William Baker. The cost was £ 104,000. The bridge was opened in May 1863 by the London and North Western Railway in operation. At the beginning of the bridge was only used by freight trains, only since 1904 also operate passenger trains over the bridge. In 1969 and 1992, the bridge was strengthened. It is now considered a bottleneck in rail traffic, since the maximum speed of the trains is limited to 25 km / h.
Right next to the Battersea Railway Bridge the construction of a pedestrian bridge named Jubilee Bridge is planned.