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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    himself developed wrought iron trough bridges which used some of the ideas he had developed in the tubular bridge. When the cotton industry fell into recession...
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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    a Scottish engineer associated with water wheels and the Britannia tubular bridge but above all with a scientific approach to engineering. He was elected...
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