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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 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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