Building the last Main Line Railway

Newton to the Oxford Canal: gcrcs143

View of one of the completed skewed brick piers used to carry the steel girders over the Oxford Canal. The method of building in situ the steel girders can be seen above. Large steel plating running the length of the girder has been erected vertically with narrower horizontal plates riveted at the top and bottom. This forms the basic 'I' shape with smaller sections inserted at regular distances on both sides of the vertical plate to support the top and bottom plating. Lying in the foreground are the boarded wooden bridge centerings that have been used to provide the shape of the arches.

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