Winthorpe Bridge | |
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Coordinates | 53°06′N0°48′W / 53.10°N 0.80°W |
OS grid reference | SK805567 |
Carries | A1 |
Crosses | River Trent |
Locale | Nottinghamshire, NG23 |
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 | |
Winthorpe Bridge is a concrete box girder bridge, carrying the A1 road over the River Trent in east Nottinghamshire.
The contracts for the bridge were awarded on 20 March 1962 for £495,695, and construction began on 16 July 1962. The six-mile 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 near 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 (1323680) on 29 May 1998.
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