The Arkendale H & the Wastdale H near Sharpness (4K UHD) (Footage as seen on Channel 5)
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This footage has been licensed by Channel 5 for one of their programmes "World's Greatest Bridges", broadcast on Channel 5 on 1st Dec 2017. Full episode: https://www.my5.tv/worlds-greatest-br...
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Just off Purton lies the wrecks of the The Arkendale H & the Wastdale H, upstream from the entrance to Sharpness Docks.
The Severn Railway Bridge took 4 years to build from 1875 and was completed in 1879. The Railway Bridge was 4,162 feet long and 70 feet above high water with 22 spans across the Severn.
On 25 October 1960, in very thick fog combined with a very strong tide, two barges - the Arkendale H and Wastdale H - which had both missed the Sharpness Dock entrance, collided with one of the columns of the bridge. Two spans of the cast iron bridge collapsed into the river. Parts of the structure hit the barges causing the fuel oil and petroleum they were carrying to explode and burst into flames.
The Western Region of British Railways planned to reconstruct the bridge but after further damage to the bridge in February 1961 (another span collapsed) The bridge was classed to be too expensive to repair.[
The mammoth demolition task started in 1967 and lasted until 1970 being managed by Nordman Construction. You can still see the peers between the Gloucester & Sharpness Canal and the River Severn. You can also see foundations are only visible at low tide, as too the wrecks of the petrol barges seen here.
Ringtone.net Ltd holds a CAA PfCO UAV3063 - 01452 348193.
Just off Purton lies the wrecks of the The Arkendale H & the Wastdale H, upstream from the entrance to Sharpness Docks.
The Severn Railway Bridge took 4 years to build from 1875 and was completed in 1879. The Railway Bridge was 4,162 feet long and 70 feet above high water with 22 spans across the Severn.
On 25 October 1960, in very thick fog combined with a very strong tide, two barges - the Arkendale H and Wastdale H - which had both missed the Sharpness Dock entrance, collided with one of the columns of the bridge. Two spans of the cast iron bridge collapsed into the river. Parts of the structure hit the barges causing the fuel oil and petroleum they were carrying to explode and burst into flames.
The Western Region of British Railways planned to reconstruct the bridge but after further damage to the bridge in February 1961 (another span collapsed) The bridge was classed to be too expensive to repair.[
The mammoth demolition task started in 1967 and lasted until 1970 being managed by Nordman Construction. You can still see the peers between the Gloucester & Sharpness Canal and the River Severn. You can also see foundations are only visible at low tide, as too the wrecks of the petrol barges seen here.
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