Kingsferry Bridge

Kingsferry Bridge

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crosses= The Swale
locale= Isle of Sheppey, Kent, UK
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design= Vertical lift bridge
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width= 50 feet
clearance= 120 feet
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The Kingsferry Bridge was designed by Mott, Hay and Anderson, and built by John Howard, with Dorman Long and Sir William Arrol. It comprises a reinforced concrete and structural steel deck, supported from portal-shaped reinforced concrete towers.

The first bridge on the site had been a railway bascule bridge built in 1860 as part of the London, Chatham and Dover Railway. This was replaced in 1904 by a Scherzer-type bascule bridge, replaced in turn by the present bridge. [Otter, Robert A.: "Civil Engineering Heritage: Southern England", Thomas Telford Publishing, 1994, p. 239]

Swale railway station is at the southern end of the Kingsferry Bridge.

The A249 was carried on the Kingsferry Bridge until the opening of a new fixed Sheppey crossing in 2006.

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