Gaunless Bridge
Gaunless Bridge | |
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Engraving published in The Engineer (1875) | |
| Coordinates | 54°38′00″N 1°42′46″W / 54.633203°N 1.712808°W |
| Carries | Witton Park branch of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, a horse-drawn mineral railway |
| Crosses | River Gaunless |
| Characteristics | |
| Design | lenticular truss |
| Material | Wrought- and cast-iron |
| Total length | 50 feet (20 m) |
| Longest span | 12 feet 5 inches (3.78 m) |
| No. of spans | three, later four |
| History | |
| Designer | George Stephenson |
| Fabrication by | John & Isaac Burrell |
| Opened | 1823 |
| Location | |
Gaunless Bridge was a railway bridge on the Stockton and Darlington Railway. It was completed in 1823 and is one of the first railway bridges to be constructed of iron and the first to use an iron truss. It is also of an unusual lenticular truss design.