
The Cannon Street Railway Bridge is the last of the railroad bridges I encountered on my trip to London in 2012. Compared to the others (Battersea, Grosvenor, Hungerford, and Blackfriars), the Cannon Street bridge is relatively boring, though it also has its unique features. It is the only one of the five constructed with plate-deck girders, a style my “How to Read Bridges” book skips over, but appears to be a complex form of beam bridge for larger spans.
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