A tubular bridge is a bridge built as a rigid box girder section within which the traffic is carried. Famous examples include the original Britannia Bridge...
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designed and built by the noted railway engineer Robert Stephenson as a tubular bridge of wrought iron rectangular box-section spans for carrying rail traffic...
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a tubular bridge designed by Robert Stephenson, the bridge was the first to span the St. Lawrence River, and as such is an important historic bridge in...
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percussion family Tubular bridge, a bridge built as a rigid box girder section, with the traffic carried within the section Tubular chassis or superleggera...
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upstream from the bridge location and served as a place to assemble the bridge before moving it to its final position. The tubular bridge was manufactured...
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types of bridges. Cable-stayed suspension bridge "The five main bridge designs". ECL Civil Engineering. 21 March 2022. "Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge, Istanbul...
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Chepstow Railway Bridge was built to the instructions of Isambard Kingdom Brunel in 1852. The "Great Tubular Bridge" over the River Wye at Chepstow, which...
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des Marchands in Narbonne are two of 45 inhabited bridges in Europe. A tubular bridge is a bridge built as a rigid box girder section within which the...
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Bridge carries the North Wales coast railway line across the River Conwy between Llandudno Junction and the town of Conwy. The wrought iron tubular bridge...
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Box girder (redirect from Tubular girder)
Tubular bridges Britannia Bridge Conwy Railway Bridge Box girder bridges Severn Bridge Cleddau Bridge West Gate Bridge Koblenz Bridge Gateway Bridge,...
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first tubular wrought iron plate girder bridge was built in 1846-47 by James Millholland for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Plate girder bridges are suitable...
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A box girder bridge, or box section bridge, is a bridge in which the main beams comprise girders in the shape of a hollow box. The box girder normally...
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stiffness of a structure that has much in common with a tubular bridge. Typical suspension bridges are constructed using a sequence generally described as...
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Robert Stephenson (category British bridge engineers)
Level Bridge and Royal Border Bridge on the East Coast Main Line. With Eaton Hodgkinson and William Fairbairn he developed wrought-iron tubular bridges, such...
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arch Suspension Bridge Cable-stayed bridge Simple suspension bridge Inca rope bridge Tubular bridge Extradosed bridge Moveable Bridge Drawbridge (British...
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Liag, County Donegal. The Tubular Bridge at The Gobbins Plaque detailing the restoration of The Gobbins New bridge and old bridge remains at The Gobbins...
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design for a tubular bridge, and in 1859 he built a large and expensive tubular bridge for the Grand Trunk Railway at Montreal, Quebec. The bridge builder...
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Conwy (section Suspension bridge)
house, is in the care of the National Trust. The Conwy Railway Bridge, a tubular bridge, was built for the Chester and Holyhead Railway by Robert Stephenson...
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Chester and Holyhead Railway (section The Menai Bridge)
hugely expensive, chiefly due to the cost of building the Britannia Tubular Bridge over the Menai Strait. The company had relied on Government support...
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This is a list of bridge failures. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2005 novel): The fictional Brockdale Bridge, by the Death Eaters (replaced by...
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vertical stabilizers. Tubular bridge and Fairbairn crane, the Victorian invention of the multiple torsion box, for the construction of bridges and cranes in wrought...
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Macassey in the 1890s as "a rail link using either a tunnel, a submerged "tubular bridge" or a solid causeway". The north channel crossing was the subject of...
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of bridges in the Republic of Ireland lists bridges of particular historical, scenic, architectural or engineering interest. Road and railway bridges, viaducts...
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considered as an alternative to cast iron for the High Level Bridge. A tubular bridge might have been considered by Robert Stephenson but the distance between...
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with tunnels and bridges, including two tubular bridges 70 feet long that connected the 'Man o'War Stack' to the main path. The bridges were built in Belfast...
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The Conwy Suspension Bridge is a Grade I-listed structure and is one of the first road suspension bridges in the world. Located in the medieval town of...
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Chepstow (section Bridges and the riverside)
Nottingham, via Birmingham New Street. The railway bridge also known as "The Great Tubular Bridge" spanning the River Wye between Chepstow and Sedbury...
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fame, Robert Stephenson designed the Victoria Tubular Bridge at Montreal, then the greatest Canadian bridge. Stisted Named for Major General Henry William...
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Arch (category Bridge components)
used in the great tubular bridge. [...] Stonehenge is more scientifically constructed than York Minster." Use of arches in bridge construction continued...
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December 2022. Passfield, Robert W. (2001). "Construction of the Victoria Tubular Bridge" (PDF). Canal History and Technology Proceedings. Vol. 20. pp. 5–52...
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