Sheepwash Channel Railway Bridge Explained

Bridge Name:Sheepwash Channel Railway Bridge
Carries:Cherwell Valley Line
Crosses:Sheepwash Channel
Locale:Oxford, England
Maint:Network Rail
Design:Girder bridge
Material:Steel
Spans:1
Coordinates:51.7556°N -1.2709°W

Sheepwash Channel Railway Bridge is a railway bridge over Sheepwash Channel in west Oxford, England, just north of Oxford railway station.[1] To the north are Cripley Meadow and Fiddler's Island. To the south are Osney Island and the Botley Road.The bridge is close to Rewley Road Swing Bridge just to the east,[2] an older and now disused swing bridge for the former Buckinghamshire Railway line of London and North Western Railway that used to serve the Oxford Rewley Road railway station.[3] It is also close to Rewley Road Bridge to the east. Sheepwash channel links the River Thames with the Oxford Canal via Castle Mill Stream and Isis Lock.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Sheepwash Channel Railway Bridge . CanalPlanAC . UK . 19 September 2012 .
  2. Book: Woolley, Liz . Oxford's Working Past . 6, 13–14 . Huxley Scientific Press . 2012 . 978-0-9522671-7-1 .
  3. Web site: Sheepwash Channel — Oxford Canal / River Thames . Movable Bridges in the British Isles . UK . 15 September 2012 .