Witton Park branch of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, a horse-drawn mineral railway
Crosses
River Gaunless
Characteristics
Design
lenticular truss
Material
Wrought- and cast-iron
Total length
50 feet (20 m)
Longest span
12 feet 5 inches (3.78 m)
No. of spans
three, later four
History
Designer
George Stephenson
Fabrication by
John & Isaac Burrell
Opened
1823 (1823)
Location
Gaunless Bridge was a railway bridge on the Stockton and Darlington Railway. It was completed in 1823 and is one of the first railway bridges to be constructed of iron[1] and the first to use an iron truss.[2] It is also of an unusual lenticular truss design.[3]
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^Chrimes, Mike (1991). Civil Engineering 1839-1889. Alan Sutton Publishing. p. 45. ISBN 1-84015-008-4.
^Beckett, Derrick (1984). Stephensons' Britain. David & Charles. pp. 38, 40, 42–43. ISBN 0-7153-8269-1.
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