Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,253 pages of information and 244,496 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Tavy Bridge

From Graces Guide
Tavy Bridge.
1890.

Tavy Bridge is a railway viaduct across the mouth of the River Tavy just east of its confluence with the River Tamar.

It was built c1890 by the Plymouth, Devonport and South Western Junction Railway (PDSWJ) to carry the line from St Budeaux to Bere Alston, now part of the Tamar Valley Line.

The centre of the bridge is made up of eight iron tied-arch sections supported by seven pairs of cast iron pillars.

To north and south, stone arch viaducts connect the centre section to the shore, with two arches to the north and seven to the south.


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