Sheepwash Channel Railway Bridge

Sheepwash Channel Railway Bridge
Sheepwash Channel Railway Bridge
	The Sheepwash Channel Railway Bridge with the old Rewley Road Swing Bridge in the foreground, on the Sheepwash Channel.
Coordinates	51°45′20″N 1°16′15″W / 51.755586°N 1.270946°WCoordinates: 51°45′20″N 1°16′15″W / 51.755586°N 1.270946°W
Carries	Cherwell Valley Line
Crosses	Sheepwash Channel
Locale	Oxford, England
Maintained by	Network Rail
Characteristics
Design	Girder bridge
Material	Steel
No. of spans	1
Location

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.

Railways around Oxford

Legend

to Banbury

to Worcester

to Bicester

to Witney and Fairford

Oxford Parkway

Yarnton

Oxford Road Halt

Yarnton Loop

City boundary

Wolvercot Junction

Wolvercot Platform

Wolvercote Halt

Oxford North Junction

Port Meadow Halt

Exchange sidings

Sheepwash Channel

Rewley Road Swing Bridge

Oxford Gas Works

River Isis

City boundary

Oxford (Grandpont) Goods

Hinksey Halt

Millstream Junction

Abingdon Road Halt

Kennington Junction

Radley

Iffley Halt

to Didcot

Kennington Railway Bridge

Littlemore

Morris Cowley

BMW Mini terminal

Horspath Halt

to Princes Risborough

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.^[1] Sheepwash channel links the River Thames with the Oxford Canal via Castle Mill Stream and Isis Lock.

Gallery[]

View of the Sheepwash Channel Railway Bridge in the background and the site of the old Rewley Road Swing Bridge in the foreground.
The Sheepwash Channel with the new railway bridge and the old railway swing bridge.
Looking north along the railway line from Oxford railway station over Sheepwash Channel Railway Bridge towards Cripley Meadow.

References[]

^ ^a ^b "Sheepwash Channel Railway Bridge". UK: CanalPlanAC. Retrieved 19 September 2012. {{cite web}}: External link in |publisher= (help)
^ Woolley, Liz (2012). Oxford's Working Past. Huxley Scientific Press. pp. 6, 13–14. ISBN 978-0-9522671-7-1. {{cite book}}: External link in |publisher= (help)
^ "Sheepwash Channel — Oxford Canal / River Thames". UK: Movable Bridges in the British Isles. Retrieved 15 September 2012. {{cite web}}: External link in |publisher= (help)

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[canalplan-1] "Sheepwash Channel Railway Bridge". UK: CanalPlanAC. Retrieved 19 September 2012. {{cite web}}: External link in |publisher= (help)

[woolley-2] Woolley, Liz (2012). Oxford's Working Past. Huxley Scientific Press. pp. 6, 13–14. ISBN 978-0-9522671-7-1. {{cite book}}: External link in |publisher= (help)

[3] "Sheepwash Channel — Oxford Canal / River Thames". UK: Movable Bridges in the British Isles. Retrieved 15 September 2012. {{cite web}}: External link in |publisher= (help)

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