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The bridge consists of two steel girders resting on concrete abutments, carried in turn on piles driven deep into the sandstone bedrock. The bridge has a concrete deck, cast in situ, rather than the normal longitudinal timbers used elsewhere on the line, allowing the track to be sleepered as normal on a ballasted base.
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File: Bridgnorth_Bypass_Bridge_20150528.jpg | Bridgnorth Bypass Bridge seen from the Bypass
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The bridge was completed in time for the line to re-open for the [[Severn Valley Railway Timeline 1980-1989#1983 | 1983]] season. However construction of the bypass required lowering the B4555 Highley road to pass underneath it, and consequently increasing the height of the railway embankment. Less than two months later, the embankment collapsed a few yards beyond the bridge (the area on the left of the photo below). Shropshire County Council and the SVR worked jointly for 14 hours a day seven days a week to reopen the line three weeks later.
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File: Bridgnorth_Bypass_20150528.jpg | The Bypass and Bypass Bridge seen from the B4555
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