Bridges and viaducts

Britain’s railway bridges drawn to one scale, each with a train that crosses it today. Each drawing is a schematic side elevation built from the bridge’s published dimensions.

The 15 bridges one under another, drawn to one scale, longest first
All 15 at one scale, longest first, shrunk together to fit the page; the bar is 328 ft (100 m). Each card below opens the bridge’s own page, with its drawing at 1 and 4 px a metre and close-ups at the trains’ own scale. The cards’ drawings are each fitted to the card.

Cantilever and truss bridges

Steel and wrought-iron trusses over wide water.

Arched viaducts

Stone, brick and concrete arches across valleys and rivers.

Girder bridges

Iron and steel girders and arch ribs on piers: London’s river bridges.

Iron and steel arches and tubes

The great iron bridges of the 1840s, in their first form or rebuilt.

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