THE ROYAL ALBERT BRIDGE
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Also known as the Brunel Bridge, Isambard Kingdom Brunel's bridge was completed in 1859 and carries the main railway into Cornwall at Saltash from Plymouth on the Devon bank. Beacuse of the difficulty of its construction, the bridge is considered to be Brunel's greatest railway work. It is Grade I listed.

A railway was propsed for Cornwall as early as 1844 but was delayed by the need to bridge the river Tamar near Plymouth with a structure which would meet with the approval of the Navy who were concerned that a crossing would hamper the navigation of Navy vessels using adjacent Devonport base.

Brunel overcame the Navy's objections by designing a bridge which spanned the 1,100ft width of the Tamar with two huge trusses supported by only a single 240ft tall pier in the river producing the minimum obstruction of the waterway. The railway was suspended 110ft above high water from the trusses on chains.

Brunel's design for the Cornwall railway Company was accepted in 1852 and the bridge opened on May 3rd, 1859 by Prince Albert.

The Tamar Bridge was built just upstream of Brunel's bridge to carry the A38, one of the two main routes to Cornwall, and opened in 1961

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