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  2. History of the railway track - Wikipedia

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    The earliest tracks consisted of wooden rails on transverse wooden sleepers, which helped maintain the spacing of the rails. Various developments followed, with cast iron plates laid on top of the wooden rails and later wrought iron plates or wrought iron angle plates (angle iron as L-shaped plate rails). Rails were also individually fixed to ...

  3. John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge - Wikipedia

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    Eleven-ton iron anchors were embedded in each block, securing cables with wrought iron chain links of Roebling's patent. The Civil War depleted the work force on the project, hindering speed and efficiency until its end. The Roebling Suspension Bridge at night. Work on the bridge proceeded steadily after the end of the war.

  4. Staines Railway Bridge - Wikipedia

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    Staines Railway Bridge was designed by John Gardner and cost £10,000 to build. It is constructed of wrought iron girders supported on six cast iron pillars, embedded in the river bed. The main span is 30 m (88 ft 6 in) wide and the total length of the bridge is 85.24 m (279 ft 8 in). [5] It is 35 mi 3 furlongs (57 km) upstream of London Bridge.

  5. Wrought iron - Wikipedia

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    Wrought iron. Wrought iron is an iron alloy with a very low carbon content (less than 0.05%) in contrast to that of cast iron (2.1% to 4.5%). It is a semi-fused mass of iron with fibrous slag inclusions (up to 2% by weight), which give it a wood-like "grain" that is visible when it is etched, rusted, or bent to failure.

  6. Forth Bridge - Wikipedia

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    LB40370. Location. The Forth Bridge[ 2] is a cantilever railway bridge across the Firth of Forth in the east of Scotland, 9 miles (14 kilometres) west of central Edinburgh. Completed in 1890, it is considered a symbol of Scotland (having been voted Scotland's greatest man-made wonder in 2016), and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. [ 3]

  7. Severn Railway Bridge - Wikipedia

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    Severn Railway Bridge. /  51.7327°N 2.474°W  / 51.7327; -2.474. The Severn Railway Bridge (historically called the Severn Bridge) was a bridge carrying the railway across the River Severn between Sharpness and Lydney in Gloucestershire, England. It was built in the 1870s by the Severn Bridge Railway Company, primarily to carry coal from ...

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