Sujet

Second Severn Crossing, M4, New Passage, Pilning and Severn Beach, Gloucestershire, 13/08/1993. Creator: John Laing plc.

Légende

A view of the construction of the Second Severn Crossing, showing cranes on platforms and concrete caissons installed in the River Severn. The Second Severn Crossing took four years to build and was a joint civil engineering project between Laing Civil Engineering and the French company GTM. The work started in April 1992 and the opening ceremony later took place on 5th June 1996. The crossing is a cable-stayed bridge which stretches over 5000 metres across the River Severn, 3 miles downstream from the Severn Bridge which opened in 1966.

Date

1993

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England

Notre référence

HRM21A85_092

Model release

Non

Property release

Non

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

81,2Mo (3,8Mo) / 44,9cm x 45,3cm / 5301 x 5353 (300dpi)

Mots clés

transport transportation river England work engineering country ship ships bridge bridges British crane cranes geography English color mouth structure location infrastructure century platform Britain concept civil engineering severn bridge estuary Nineties Colour Construction Industry dais water transport 20th century River Severn 1990s decade geographical feature Severn Severn estuary working photograph caisson Second Severn Crossing Historic England John Laing plc Laing John plc concrete batching plant Prince of Wales Bridge