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Bridge in Oxfordshire

Appleford Railway Bridge
Appleford Railway Bridge
Coordinates	51°38′38″N 1°14′25″W / 51.6439°N 1.2404°W / 51.6439; -1.2404
Carries	Cherwell Valley Line
Crosses	River Thames
Locale	Oxfordshire
Maintained by	Network Rail
Characteristics
Design	Bow and string
Material	Iron
Height	13 feet (4.0 m)
History
Opened	1844
Location

Appleford Railway Bridge carries the Cherwell Valley Line from Didcot to Oxford across the River Thames near the village of Appleford-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England. It crosses the Thames on the reach between Clifton Lock and Culham Lock.

Originally, a timber bridge was built at the approximate location of the present bridge; by December 1843, it was reportedly under construction, and was completed during the following year. By the 1850s, it has been replaced by a more substantial bridge principally composed of wrought iron so that heavier trains could be run along the line. A third bridge was completed in 1927, which was built out of steel; it is this structure that is presently used as of the 2010s.

References

"Bridge heights on the River Thames". River Thames Alliance. January 2008. Archived from the original on 24 January 2008.
Thacker, Fred. S. (1968) . The Thames Highway: Volume II Locks and Weirs. Newton Abbot: David and Charles. p. not cited.

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Next crossing upstream	River Thames	Next crossing downstream
Sutton Bridge (road)	Appleford Railway Bridge	Clifton Hampden Bridge (road)

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