Cannon Street Railway Bridge

It’s such a beautiful railway bridge.

Eine der vielen imposanten Eisenbahnbrücken über die Themse mitten in London die direkt in einen ebenso eindrucksvollen Bahnhof münden.

Beautiful bridge.

Pleasant bridge during the day and the night also.

Pont très impossant très accessible

The cannon street railway bridge is a bridge for trains to pass on to the cannon street railway station.

Cannon Street Railway Bridge sits between London Bridge and Southwark Bridge in London, connecting the City of London on the northern shore with south and south-east London by rail.The iron bridge carries trains on the Southeastern line over the River Thames to Cannon Street Station.An Act to enable the construction of the bridge, Cannon Street Station, and the connecting railway was obtained in 1861.The works, under the direction of engineer Sir John Hawkshaw, began in 1863. Hawkshaw, ICE Past President (1862-3) and fellow civil engineer Sir John Wolfe-Barry designed the bridge for the South Eastern Railway Company.The bridge opened to traffic in 1866, with five spans on cast-iron Doric columms filled with concrete and brickwork. A span is the distance between two supports for a bridge. A Doric column is a design from ancient Greece, where the column is wider at the bottom than at the top and has grooves along its shaft.Between the abutments – the ends of the bridge – the bridge is 706ft long (215m).The length of the two shore spans are about 126ft (38m) each, and the three middle spans 136ft (41m) each.It’s supported by piers of cast-iron columns, 18 feet in diameter at the base and 12 feet in diameter above the bed of the river, filled with concrete and brickwork.The superstructure of the bridge – the part of the bridge that directly supports the traffic – is made of plate girders. A plate girder is an iron beam built up from plates and shapes welded together.Between 1886 and 1893, the bridge was widened by Francis Brady, engineer for South Eastern Railway, to a width of around 20m.This allowed the bridge to have double the number of tracks, going from five to 10.The bridge has undergone extensive renovations between 1979 and the early 1980s.

Beautiful views during the day and breathtaking during the night❤️

Cannon Street name is a shortening of Middle English ‘candelwrichstrete’ meaning ‘street of candle makers,’ first mentioned in 12th century. The street sits within Ward of Candlewick, one of 25 ancient subdivisions of the City of London.