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Latitude: 51.4586 / 51°27'30"N
Longitude: -0.9498 / 0°56'59"W
OS Eastings: 473060
OS Northings: 173810
OS Grid: SU730738
Mapcode National: GBR QRD.QL
Mapcode Global: VHDWT.HL7Q
Plus Code: 9C3XF352+C3
Entry Name: Railway Bridge and Attached Accommodation Bridge over River Kennet at Su 7306 7381
Listing Date: 17 November 1988
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1113621
English Heritage Legacy ID: 39279
Also known as: Horseshoe Bridge
ID on this website: 101113621
Location: New Town, Reading, Berkshire, RG1
County: Reading
Electoral Ward/Division: Park
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Reading
Traditional County: Berkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Berkshire
Church of England Parish: Reading Greyfriars
Church of England Diocese: Oxford
Tagged with: Railway bridge
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Railway bridge and attached accommodation bridge over River Kennet at SU 7306 7381
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II
Railway bridge and attached accommodation bridge. Railway bridge 1839-1840 by
Isambard Kingdom Brunel for The Great Western Railway, widened[1892 and probably
accommodation bridge attached at same date. Railway bridge of red brick widened
in engineering brick with ashlar dressings; accommodation bridge of steel and
timber. Railway bridge: built on skew having central elliptical arch flanked by
pilasters, the western one on cutwater, with two round flood arches to either side
and broad battered buttresses beyond. Band below flat-coped parapet. North side,
the addition, similar but partially masked by the accommodation bridge which has
steel-framed substructure, with girders cantilevered from face of railway bridge;
wooden deck; and parapet of vertical boards supported by panelled frame with
diagonally-crossed braces, this being of timber to the long, sloping ramps (which
are panelled to river) and of steel to the peaked archway. The Twyford to Reading
section of the Great Western Railway was opened 30.3.1840.
Listing NGR: SU7306073810
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