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[[File: Cleobury_Road_Bridge_20150528.jpg |thumb|300px|right| Cleobury Road Bridge (2015)]]
[[File:Cleobury Road Bridge Repairs 1973.jpg|thumb|300px|right| Overhaul of the bridge underway in 1973]]
'''Cleobury Road Bridge''' (Bridge 35) allows the main road from Bridgnorth towards Cleobury Mortimer and [[Highley]] to pass underneath the Severn Valley Railway. It is a plate-girder bridge with a span of 55ft on the skew and 35ft on the square, and is located immediately south of [[Bridgnorth|Bridgnorth Station]].<ref>[[Bibliography#Books|Marshall (1989)]] p. 104.</ref> The Until 2022 the turnout (points ) controlling access to platforms 1 and 2 are were located on the bridge itself, with the switch blades on one side of the bridge and the point nose on the other,<ref name=SVR31>SVR News 31</ref> meaning the bridge is crossed by locomotives while 'running round'. The viewing gallery at the foot of [[Bridgnorth#Pan Pudding Hill|Pan Pudding Hill]] ends next to the bridge's northern abutment.
The picture (right) is looking west with Bridgnorth station to the right.
In early 2008, a few days before the section of the line between Bridgnorth and Hampton Loade was due to reopen after repairs following the [[2007 Storm Damage|2007 storm damage]], the southern end of the bridge was found to be out of alignment by about 10cm following an unreported strike by a lorry. An emergency road closure was authorised while the [[Cowans Sheldon 30-ton steam crane RS 1087|30 ton steam crane]] successfully relocated the end of the bridge on its bearings, allowing the reopening to take place on Saturday 9 February as planned.<ref>[[Bibliography#Books|Sowden (2012)]] p.44.</ref>
During the first phase of the project to refurbish the [[Bridgnorth MPD|Locomotive yard]] which began in January 2023, the old turnout was removed and a new turnout installed further north, off the bridge itself. The track bed was dug out to a depth of a metre and rebuilt using a reinforced earth technique to give added strength, reducing lateral forces on the bridge's wing walls. New drainage was also installed<ref>[https://www.svrlive.com/bljan23 Branch Lines January 2023]</ref>.
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