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Surtees Bridge
Bridge over the River Tees in Northern England / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Surtees Bridge is a road bridge carrying the A66(T) road east west across the River Tees near Thornaby-on-Tees in the borough of Stockton-on-Tees in the north east of England. The bridge is situated one kilometre upriver from Stockton town centre, just upriver of Surtees Rail Bridge – a rail bridge carrying the Tees Valley Line. Built at a cost of £14.3 million[1][2][3] the bridge replaces an earlier Surtees Bridge (1981) that showed signs of distress resulting from excessive settlement.
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Surtees Bridge | |
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Coordinates | 54°33′15.7″N 1°18′38.6″W |
Carries | A66 road |
Crosses | River Tees |
Locale | Borough of Stockton-on-Tees, England, United Kingdom |
Official name | Surtees Bridge |
Owner | National Highways |
Preceded by | Jubilee Bridge |
Followed by | Surtees Rail Bridge |
Characteristics | |
Design | slab and girder |
Material | Reinforced concrete and steel plate girder |
Total length | 150 metres (492 ft) |
Longest span | 50 metres (164 ft) |
No. of spans | 3 |
Piers in water | 2 |
Design life | 120 years |
History | |
Designer | A1 Integrated Highway Services |
Engineering design by | Halcrow Group |
Constructed by | Edmund Nuttall |
Fabrication by | Cleveland Bridge and Engineering Company |
Construction start | 20 March 2006 |
Construction end | 22 January 2008 |
Opened | 3 December 2007 |
Inaugurated | 24 January 2008 |
Replaces | Surtees Bridge (1981) |
Statistics | |
Daily traffic | 55,000 vpd |
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The Surtees Bridge and the A1(M) motorway bridge are the busiest over the River Tees with 55,000 vehicles per day.[1][4] The river level at this point is held at 2.7 mOD by the Tees Barrage which makes the river here permanently navigable.[5][6]