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
Royal Albert Bridge
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The Royal Albert Bridge is a railway bridge which spans the River Tamar in England, between Plymouth, Devon and Saltash, Cornwall. Its unique design consists of two 455-foot lenticular iron trusses 10
Chepstow Railway Bridge
…considered one of Brunel's major achievements. It was economical in its use of materials, and would prove to be the design prototype for Brunel's 1854 Royal Albert Bridge at Saltash in Cornwall. Although the superstructure has since been replaced, Brunel's tubular iron piers continue to support the bridge. It is a Grade…
Royal Albert Bridge 2009
A tide recorder designed by Brunel as part of his survey
The first span and centre pier under construction in 1854, seen from Saltash
The second span soon after it was floated onto the piers and had been jacked up the first 12 feet (3.7 m) towards its final position