Puriton Rail Bridge
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| Bridge Name: | Puriton Rail Bridge | |||
| No.: | 5 | |||
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| Build Date: | 1942 | |||
| Engineer: | Mr J.M.Hitchen M.I.C.E. M.I.M.E Deputy Chief Engineer to the Somerset River Catchment Board | |||
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| Description: | ||||
| Five spans-one 50ft main steel span and two 16ft spans of reinforced concrete, carried on reinforced concrete piles, driven through the soft clay and peat beds to rock lying at a depth of 80 ft below railway track level; the piles are 65ft in length, and each weighed about 7.5tons. | ||||
| References: | Capture Highbridge – Drainage of the Brue Valley | |||