Runcorn Widnes Bridge

The Silver Jubilee Bridge crosses the River Mersey and the Manchester Ship Canal at Runcorn Gap between Runcorn and Widnes in Cheshire, England. It is a compression arch suspended-deck bridge (or through arch bridge) which was opened in 1961 and widened in 1975–77. It carries the A533 road and a cantilevered footway. The bridge is a grade II listed building. Until 1868, when Runcorn Railway Bridge was opened, the only means of crossing the Mersey... more
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