Winthorpe Bridge
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Winthorpe Bridge | |
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.jpg) View in September 2012 | |
| Coordinates | 53°06′N 0°48′W / 53.10°N 0.80°W |
| OS grid reference | SK805567 |
| Carries | A1 |
| Crosses | River Trent |
| Locale | Winthorpe, Nottinghamshire, England |
| Maintained by | National Highways |
| Heritage status | Grade II* listed[1] |
| Characteristics | |
| Material | Reinforced concrete |
| Total length | 520 ft (160 m) |
| Width | 82 ft (25 m) |
| Longest span | 260 ft (79 m) |
| History | |
| Constructed by | Christiani & Nielsen |
| Construction start | March 1962 |
| Construction cost | £465,695 |
| Opened | 27 July 1964 |
| Statistics | |
| Daily traffic | A1 dual carriageway on the Newark bypass |
| Location | |
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Winthorpe Bridge is a concrete box girder bridge, carrying the A1 road over the River Trent in Winthorpe, Nottinghamshire, England.
The contracts for the bridge were awarded on 20 March 1962 for £495,695, and construction began on 16 July that year. The 6-mile (9.7 km) bypass was to cost £3,250,000. It was opened on 27 July 1964, by Ernest Marples.
The bridge was constructed by the Danish bridge-builder Christiani & Nielsen.[2] Another Danish civil engineering company Bierrum built the nearby cooling towers, along the River Trent to the north. The Newark bypass was built by Robert McGregor & Sons who would have laid the concrete pavement on the bridge. The north-bound surface had the concrete pavement laid in forty days, with three concrete-batching sites along the bypass preparing the concrete.
The bridge was Grade II* listed on 29 May 1998.[1]
Structure
The bridge crosses the River Trent in Winthorpe, Nottinghamshire, which is the third-longest river in England, at 185 miles (298 km).[3] It is a reinforced-concrete bridge made out of nine box girders.[4]