Latitude: 51.6517 / 51°39'6"N
Longitude: -3.8365 / 3°50'11"W
OS Eastings: 273046
OS Northings: 196367
OS Grid: SS730963
Mapcode National: GBR H1.73QS
Mapcode Global: VH4K5.GR55
Plus Code: 9C3RM527+MC
Entry Name: Former Swing Bridge across River Neath, immediately E.of Dynevor Junction
Listing Date: 5 January 1989
Last Amended: 5 January 1989
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 11830
Building Class: Transport
ID on this website: 300011830
Location: Carrying the Cardiff to Swansea railway line over the River Neath below Pentreffynon
County: Neath Port Talbot
Community: Neath (Castell-nedd)
Community: Neath
Traditional County: Glamorgan
1913 swing bridge. Built by the Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway. Overall length of 388 ft.
Five fixed spans of 40 to 52 ft; plate girder construction resting on steel cylinders sunk into riverbed. Movable span of a 167 ft span Pratt truss with a curved upper boom swinging about its centre and resting on a cast iron roller race.
Originally hydraulically operated the bridge is now fixed.
Steelwork by Finch of Chepstow, hydraulic machinery by Sir William Armstrong of Newcastle.
Only opening bridge of this type in Britain built both on the skew and on a curve.
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