Tinsley Viaduct

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Tinsley Viaduct is a two-tier steel box-girder road bridge near Sheffield, England, notable for carrying the M1 motorway and local traffic across the Don Valley and adjacent waterways.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf road bridge
steel box-girder bridge
viaduct
carries M1 motorway NERFINISHED
local road traffic
category Box girder bridges in the United Kingdom
Bridges in South Yorkshire
Viaducts in the United Kingdom
constructionStartDate 1965
country United Kingdom
crosses Don Valley NERFINISHED
Don Valley industrial area NERFINISHED
River Don NERFINISHED
Sheffield Canal NERFINISHED
railway lines in the Don Valley
design box-girder
function to carry road traffic across the Don Valley and adjacent waterways
hasLaneConfiguration multiple lanes in each direction on lower deck
multiple lanes in each direction on upper deck
hasNearbyLandmark Tinsley cooling towers site
hasNumberOfDecks 2
hasToll no
length 1033 metres
3389 feet
locatedIn England
Sheffield NERFINISHED
South Yorkshire
locatedNear Meadowhall NERFINISHED
Rotherham NERFINISHED
Tinsley NERFINISHED
lowerDeckCarries A631 road NERFINISHED
local distributor roads
maintainedBy National Highways
material steel
notableFor being the first two-tier road bridge in the United Kingdom
carrying motorway and local traffic on separate decks
numberOfSpans 32
opened 1968
openedBy Harold Wilson NERFINISHED
owner National Highways NERFINISHED
partOf M1 motorway route between London and Leeds NERFINISHED
region Yorkshire and the Humber
roadNetwork Strategic Road Network of England NERFINISHED
structureType two-tier bridge
trafficType motor vehicles
underwent strengthening works after box-girder bridge failures in the 1970s
upperDeckCarries M1 motorway NERFINISHED

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