Hawarden Bridge

Hawarden Bridge

Hawarden Bridge is a railway bridge over the River Dee, near to Shotton, Flintshire, Wales. It was built by the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (which later became the Great Central Railway), as part of the Chester & Connah's Quay Railway. It opened in 3 August 1889.

The [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/405378 central section] , which was designed as a swing bridge to allow shipping to pass, no longer opens and is welded shut. Although the rotating mechanism - hydraulic cylinders attached to a drive chain and sprocket - is still visible beneath the bridge.

The bridge is now part of the Borderlands Line from Wrexham to Bidston.

Hawarden Bridge railway station is on the north side of the bridge, while Shotton station is on the south side.

External links

* [http://www.penmorfa.com/Wrexham/seven.html Hawarden Bridge and Dee Marsh] (photographs by David Sallery)
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/northeast/sites/deeside/pages/photos1.shtml?3 Photographs from BBC]


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