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.