Grosvenor Bridge

51.484722222222 - 0.14722222222222Koordinaten: 51 ° 29 ' 5 " N, 0 ° 8' 50 " W

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The Grosvenor Bridge, also Victoria Railway Bridge, is a railway bridge over the River Thames in London. It is situated between the important railway stations of Victoria and Clapham Junction and is the oldest river crossing for railways in central London. A total of ten tracks run across the bridge 54 meters wide. Immediately to the southeast is the Battersea Power Station, about 140 m upstream the Chelsea Bridge and then to them in the southwest of Battersea Park.

The oldest part of bridge was commissioned by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway. Civil engineer John Fowler was the statement that the new bridge should look similar to the 140 meters upstream location Chelsea Bridge. He planned an arch bridge with cast iron structure. Construction began in 1859 and exactly one year later, on June 9, 1860 the first train rolled over the bridge to the new central station Victoria.

The London, Chatham and Dover Railway was broadened in 1866 by Charles Fox the bridge on the west side, to make room for their own tracks. 1907, the bridge was widened on the present scale because of capacity constraints. It was then replaced in stages 1963-1967 by a new building in steel.