Britannia Bridge

building type

bridge

involved parties

Robert Stephenson (architecture)
Francis Thompson (architecture)

address

Great Britain
country
Wales
state (first-order administrative division)
Caernarvonshire
county (second-order administrative division)
Menai Strait
city

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period	description
1846–1850	planning and construction period

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First railway bridge designed as deep box girder. The designer (Stephenson, 1803-59) used model experiments, ship construction practice, and included towers for adding suspension chains if necessary. Main spans 460 ft wrought iron, total span 1511 ft consisting of two continuous wrought iron tubes side-by-side.

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last update: 2/6/2010
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