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Building the last Main Line Railway

Newton to the Oxford Canal: gcrcs225

View of the building of a steel girder bridge being erected across a lane one mile south of Newton

View of the building of a steel girder bridge being erected across a lane one mile south of Newton in March 1897. The height of the embankment is too low to allow a brick arch overbridge to be provided therefore the engineers have chosen to use the more expensive option of using steel girders. The size of the span is not too great and therefore Topham, Jones & Railton may well have chosen to build the steelwork used on the bridge in larger sections off site and bring them to site to erect them. Larger spans were frequently built in situ by using plate steel sheets and riveting them together on site to form the girders. Temporary stanchions and a boarded wooden parapet, the latter to allow easy passage over the lane, have been erected to span the gap prior to the girders' arrival.

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