Sujet

Second Severn Crossing, M4, New Passage, Pilning and Severn Beach, Glos, 118/09/95 - 19/09/95. Creator: John Laing plc.

Légende

A view of bridge deck units being installed during the construction of the Second Severn Crossing, showing a specially designed launch gantry overhead and two workers standing inside one of the deck units. 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 connecting England and Wales, 3 miles downstream from the Severn Bridge which opened in 1966.

Date

1995

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England Archive

Notre référence

HRM21B15_379

Model release

Non

Property release

Non

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

77,4Mo (2,8Mo) / 43,7cm x 44,4cm / 5157 x 5243 (300dpi)

Mots clés

transport transportation river England work job engineering worker country ship ships occupation bridge bridges British geography English color mouth structure location infrastructure century Britain profession construction worker concept civil engineering severn bridge estuary Nineties Colour Construction Industry water transport gantry 20th century River Severn workers 1990s decade geographical feature Severn Severn estuary working photograph Second Severn Crossing Historic England John Laing plc Laing John plc Prince of Wales Bridge