Bridge Being Slid Into Place
The City Council has entered the engineering scheme into the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) East Midlands Merit Awards which will be judged later this year.
The structure, located to the south east of Derby’s town centre, replaces the former London Road over bridge which took the two lane A5194 across a total of seven railway lines and sidings which form part of the Derby to Birmingham line.
HBPW Managing Partner, Paul Withers, said: “The ICE East Midlands Merit Awards are an annual celebration of the very best civil engineering projects in the region so we are delighted to be standing shoulder to shoulder with some of the best schemes in the UK.
“The team worked so hard on this project, specifically engineering designer Stephen Wilde, with Paul Monaghan and James Cable quite literally burning the midnight oil as they worked through the night to oversee the sliding into place of this impressive structure.”
Almost There!
As part of the Derby scheme four old bridge spans have now effectively been replaced by two new superstructures. Three have been lost to the bow string arch bridge which, in turn, has also enabled two supporting piers to be removed to create a more open throat to Derby station.
In addition the vertical alignment has also been altered to increase minimum vertical clearance from the railway to 4.78m in order to allow for future electrification of the lines. The scheme also features a traditional pre-cast concrete bridge deck across the remaining Bombardier span.
The project has been entered into the awards’ Medium Project category for schemes with a value of £750k – £10m. The winners will be announced at June’s ICE dinner.
An original artist’s impression of the new London Road bridge