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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 |
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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.