This photograph shows the foundations being laid for the construction of Billingham branch bridge c1932.
Picture Stockton Archive
A Pictorial History of Stockton-on-Tees
This photograph shows the foundations being laid for the construction of Billingham branch bridge c1932.
A picture that places this bridge very nicely…
http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/epw042127
It’s where the road crossed the old North Shore Branch railway line, about quarter of a mile east of Newport bridge.
In some ways this is the most important bridge in the Stockton area, being the first in the country put together by welding rather than riveting. It would be interesting to know more about the foundations since during the 1970s there was a serious movement which led to the crown of the bridge arch moving upwards. Apparently it was noticed since some trucks bottomed out on the raised sections.
Can someone please point out which bridge this is please
There are a number of references to the bridge in Picture Stockton, which is known as the Billingham Branch Bridge.it is about 0.5 km on the road north from the Newport, Middlesbrough lift Bridge