M5 Motorway Bridge
| Bridge Name: | M5 Motorway Bridge | |||
| No.: | 75 | |||
| Location: | Taunton | |||
| Build Date: | 1973 – 1975 | |||
| Engineer: | Arthur Monk Ltd | |||
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| Description: | ||||
| Three spans carrying the M5 motorway over the river. The bridge consists of two separate in-situ post-tensioned concrete box structures (one for each carriageway) with a curved soffit. The abutments are concrete cantilevers built on in-situ concrete piles.
Strengthened in 2001 to provide full capacity for 40 tonne lorries. |
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| References: | Bridges along the River Tone by prepared by South West Regional members David Greenfield, Paul Nation, David Peake, Peter Radford and Paul Tucker. | |||