Gaunless Bridge | |
|---|---|
 Engraving published in The Engineer (1875) | |
| Coordinates | 54°38′00″N 1°42′46″W / 54.633203°N 1.712808°W |
| Carries | Witton Park branch of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, a horse-drawn mineral railway |
| Crosses | River Gaunless |
| Characteristics | |
| Design | lenticular truss |
| Material | Wrought- and cast-iron |
| Total length | 50 feet (20 m) |
| Longest span | 12 feet 5 inches (3.78 m) |
| No. of spans | three, later four |
| History | |
| Designer | George Stephenson |
| Fabrication by | John & Isaac Burrell |
| Opened | 1823 |
| Location | |
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Gaunless Bridge was a railway bridge on the Stockton and Darlington Railway. It was completed in 1823 and is one of the first railway bridges to be constructed of iron[1] and the first to use an iron truss.[2] It is also of an unusual lenticular truss design.[3]
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
MWwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Chrimes, Mike (1991). Civil Engineering 1839-1889. Alan Sutton Publishing. p. 45. ISBN 1-84015-008-4.
- ^ Beckett, Derrick (1984). Stephensons' Britain. David & Charles. pp. 38, 40, 42–43. ISBN 0-7153-8269-1.