Sheepwash Channel Railway Bridge
Sheepwash Channel Railway Bridge | |
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 The Sheepwash Channel Railway Bridge with the old Rewley Road Swing Bridge in the foreground, on the Sheepwash Channel | |
| Coordinates | 51°45′20″N 1°16′15″W / 51.755586°N 1.270946°W |
| Carries | Cherwell Valley Line |
| Crosses | Sheepwash Channel |
| Locale | Oxford, England |
| Maintained by | Network Rail |
| Characteristics | |
| Design | Girder bridge |
| Material | Steel |
| No. of spans | 1 |
| Location | |
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Sheepwash Channel Railway Bridge is a railway bridge over Sheepwash Channel in west Oxford, England, just north of Oxford railway station.[1] To the north are Cripley Meadow and Fiddler's Island. To the south are Osney Island and the Botley Road.
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The bridge is close to Rewley Road Swing Bridge just to the east,[2] an older and now disused swing bridge for the former Buckinghamshire Railway line of London and North Western Railway that used to serve the Oxford Rewley Road railway station.[3] It is also close to Rewley Road Bridge to the east.[1] Sheepwash channel links the River Thames with the Oxford Canal via Castle Mill Stream and Isis Lock.
Gallery
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View of the Sheepwash Channel Railway Bridge in the background and the site of the old Rewley Road Swing Bridge in the foreground -
The Sheepwash Channel with the new railway bridge and the old railway swing bridge -
Looking north along the railway line from Oxford railway station over Sheepwash Channel Railway Bridge towards Cripley Meadow
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Sheepwash Channel Railway Bridge". UK: CanalPlanAC. Retrieved 19 September 2012.
- ^ Woolley, Liz (2012). Oxford's Working Past. Huxley Scientific Press. pp. 6, 13–14. ISBN 978-0-9522671-7-1.
- ^ "Sheepwash Channel — Oxford Canal / River Thames". UK: Movable Bridges in the British Isles. Retrieved 15 September 2012.
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