Chepstow Railway Bridge
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Chepstow Railway Bridge is a former railway bridge built to a design by Isambard Kingdom Brunel in 1852. Known as the "Great Tubular Bridge", it spanned the River Wye at Chepstow, Wales, and is consid
Brunel's original railway bridge over the Wye at Chepstow, before its 1962 replacement.
Surviving section of one of the horizontal girders, preserved outside the offices of the adjacent Mabey Bridge works.
Brunel's original cast iron piers still support the modern underhung truss railway bridge.
Chepstow Railway Bridge in 2011
Aust Ferry
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Aust Ferry or Beachley Ferry was a ferry service that operated across the River Severn between Aust and Beachley, both in Gloucestershire, England. Before the Severn Bridge opened in 1966, it provided
The ferry at Aust in 1964. The Severn Bridge is under construction in the background
In use in 1966
Dilapidated in 2006
Album cover showing Bob Dylan at Aust ferry terminal, 11 May 1966, by photographer Barry Feinstein