Osney Rail Bridge

{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Use British English|date=December 2016}} {{Infobox Bridge |bridge_name= Osney Rail Bridge |image= OsneyRailBridge.jpg |caption= |official_name= |carries= [[Cherwell Valley Line]] |crosses=[[River Thames]] |locale= [[Oxford]] |maint= [[Network Rail]] |id= |designer= |design= |material= Iron |spans= |pierswater= |mainspan= |length= |width= |height={{convert|11|ft|8|in|m}}<ref>River Thames Alliance. [https://web.archive.org/web/20080124114502/http://www.visitthames.co.uk/text.asp?PageId=320 Bridge heights on the River Thames.]</ref> |clearance= |below= |traffic= |open= 1887 |closed= |toll= |map_cue= |map_image= |map_text= |map_width= |coordinates={{coord|51.747218|-1.267242|region:GB_type:landmark|display=inline,title}} |lat= |long= }} {{Oxford area RDT}} '''Osney Rail Bridge''' is a railway bridge over the [[River Thames]] at [[Oxford]] in England. It carries the [[Cherwell Valley Line]] between [[Didcot]] and [[Oxford]] across the river on the reach between [[Iffley Lock]] and [[Osney Lock]].

The original bridge was built in 1850, when the [[Great Western Railway]] built a new line from its original Oxford station at [[Grandpont, Oxford|Grandpont]] to [[Rugby, Warwickshire|Rugby]].<ref>{{Cite book |editor-last1=Crossley |editor-first1=Alan |editor-last2=Elrington |editor-first2=C.R. |first1=Eleanor |last1=Chance |first2=Christina |last2=Colvin |first3=Janet |last3=Cooper |first4=C.J. |last4=Day |first5=T.G. |last5=Hassall |first6=Nesta |last6=Selwyn | publisher=[[Victoria County History]] | title=A History of the County of Oxford | volume=4: Communications | year=1979 |location=UK |url= http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22808}}</ref> The north side of the bridge was on the island which was then called [[Osney]]. A second bridge was built in 1887 within a foot or so of the first bridge.<ref>[http://thames.me.uk/s01740.htm Where Thames Smooth Waters Glide: Osney Railway Bridge], UK.</ref>

The bridge is maintained by [[Network Rail]], who refer to the bridge as '''River Isis Crossing'''.<ref>[http://www.oxford.gov.uk/Direct/75393OxfordAreaFloodInformationGuidanceBooklet.pdf Oxford Area Flood Information Guidance Booklet] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111214181948/http://www.oxford.gov.uk/Direct/75393OxfordAreaFloodInformationGuidanceBooklet.pdf |date=14 December 2011 }}, [[Oxford City Council]], page 45.</ref>

==See also== * [[Crossings of the River Thames]]

==References== {{Reflist}}

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[[Category:1850 establishments in England]] [[Category:Bridges completed in 1887]] [[Category:Bridges across the River Thames]] [[Category:Railway bridges in Oxfordshire]] [[Category:Great Western Railway]]