M25 Runnymede Bridge
| M25 Runnymede Bridge | |
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 M25 Bridge from downstream |
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| Carries | M25 motorway A30 road |
| Crosses | River Thames |
| Locale | Staines |
| Designer | M25 Ove Arrup A30 Edwin Lutyens |
| Design | Arch |
| Material | M25 Concrete A30 Brick |
| Height | 23 feet 0 inches (7.01 m)[1] |
| Number of spans | 1 |
The M25 Runnymede Bridge is a motorway bridge built in the 1980s, carrying the M25 motorway across the River Thames. It carries the M25 North/South just south of Heathrow Airport and crosses the Thames on the reach above Penton Hook Lock and shortly before Bell Weir Lock.
The bridge was built to complement an earlier bridge built by Sir Edwin Lutyens [2] a low wide arch bridge built of brick to carry the A30 Staines By-pass. It is an open spandrel arch of the same basic shape, but is made up of a series of parallel concrete frames. These allow light to penetrate underneath and transfer loads vertically to avoid disturbing the foundations of the earlier bridge. The motorway bridge was recently widened to six lanes each way. It is one of four bridges carrying motorway traffic across the Thames, the others being the QE2 Bridge, the M3 Chertsey Bridge and the M4 Thames Bridge, Maidenhead.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ River Thames Alliance. Bridge heights on the River Thames.
- ^ The Motorway Archives
| Next crossing upstream | River Thames | Next crossing downstream |
| Albert Bridge (road) | M25 Runnymede Bridge Grid reference: SU967772 |
Staines Bridge (road) |
Coordinates: 51°26′15″N 0°32′05″W / 51.4375°N 0.53472°W
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