Bridge Name: | Jubilee Bridge |
Official Name: | Jubilee Bridge |
Carries: | Queen Elizabeth Way |
Crosses: | River Tees |
Locale: | Borough of Stockton-on-Tees, England, United Kingdom |
Design: | Balanced cantilever |
Material: | reinforced concrete and T-section steel plate girders |
Length: | 1500NaN0 |
Mainspan: | 1060NaN0 |
Spans: | 3 |
Pierswater: | 2 |
Builder: | Birse Construction Ltd. |
Fabricator: | Cleveland Bridge & Engineering Company |
Open: | 20 April 2002 |
Complete: | 2002 |
Preceded: | Preston Pipe Bridge |
Followed: | Surtees Bridge |
The Jubilee Bridge is a road and pedestrian/cycle bridge carrying the Queen Elizabeth Way north-south across the River Tees in the borough of Stockton-on-Tees, northern England. It links Preston-on-Tees with Ingleby Barwick.[1] [2] The bridge is over 5km (03miles) upriver from, and over 3km (02miles) approximately south of Stockton town centre.
The Jubilee Bridge is a balanced cantilever design, 150 m long with 3 spans and a main span of 106 m.[1] [2] It is constructed from reinforced concrete and T-section steel plate girders.[3] It carries dual two lane carriageways and additionally on the western side, a pedestrian cycle track linking in to the local pedestrian cycle tracks on the southern bank of the River Tees.[4]
The piers are supported on 914 mm concrete-filled tubular steel piles and the abutments are supported by steel 'H' piles.[2] thumb|200px|A view from the southern embankment.
The bridge was built by Birse Construction Ltd with steel fabrication supplied by Cleveland Bridge & Engineering Company of Darlington.[2]
The bridge was opened on 20 April 2002.[1] [2]