Carries Cherwell Valley Line Locale Oxford Material Iron Location Oxford Carry Cherwell Valley line | Crosses River Thames Maintained by Network Rail Opened 1887 Body of water River Thames | |
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Height 11 feet 8 inches (3.56 m) Similar River Thames, Nuneham Railway Bridge, Kennington Railway Bridge, Appleford Railway Bridge, Grandpont Bridge | ||
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 to Rugby. 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.
The bridge is maintained by Network Rail, who refer to the bridge as River Isis Crossing.
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