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Vauxhall Bridge

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Also known as Regent Bridge

arch bridge in central London

Key facts

Carries
A202 road
Crosses
River Thames
Locale
London
Maintained by
Transport for London
Heritage status
Grade II* listed
Preceded by
Grosvenor Railway Bridge
Followed by
Lambeth Bridge
Design
Arch bridge
Material
Steel and granite
Total length
809 feet (247 m)
Width
80 feet (24 m)
Clearance below
39 feet 9 inches (12.1 m) at lowest astronomical tide
Designer
Sir Alexander Binnie , Sir Maurice Fitzmaurice
Opened
26 May 1906 ; 120 years ago ( 1906-05-26 )
Replaces
Regent Bridge (Old Vauxhall Bridge) 1816–98
Daily traffic
50,533 vehicles (2004)

via Wikipedia infobox

Wikidata facts

Material used
steel
Image
Vauxhall Bridge 2009.jpg
Length
270
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number of spans
5
Commons category
Vauxhall Bridge
date of official opening
1906-05-26
next crossing upstream
Grosvenor Bridge
next crossing downstream
Lambeth Bridge
inception
1816-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview

Vauxhall Bridge is a Grade II* listed steel and granite deck arch bridge in central London. It crosses the River Thames in a southeast–northwest direction between Vauxhall on the south bank and Pimlico on the north bank. Opened in 1906, it replaced an earlier bridge, originally known as Regent Bridge but later renamed Vauxhall Bridge, built between 1809 and 1816 as part of a scheme for redeveloping the south bank of the Thames. The bridge was built at a location in the river previously served by a ferry.

The building of both iterations of the bridge was problematic, with both the first and second bridges requiring several redesigns from multiple architects. The original bridge, the first iron bridge over the Thames, was built by a private company and operated as a toll bridge before being taken into public ownership in 1879. The second bridge, which took eight years to build, was the first in London to carry trams and later one of the first two roads in London to have a bus lane.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vauxhall Bridge” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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