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LMS: Birmingham New Street to Tamworth
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The Kingsbury and Water Orton Railway: mrwo1763

The new road bridge, near Water Orton, carrying the main Tamworth road over the railway in 1907

The new road bridge, near Water Orton, carrying the main Tamworth road over the railway in 1907. This bridge has three skew elliptical arches each with a 26 feet span, and long approaches, viz., 12½ chains in length on the north or Tamworth aide, and 11 chains in length on the south side. Untill the railway came the Tamworth road at this point was subject to serious flooding from the river Tame, and, indeed, was not infrequently rendered almost impassable to vehicular traffic in wet seasons. To meet the requirements of the new railway this stretch of road has been remodelled.

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