{"id":265735,"date":"2025-08-12T20:21:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T10:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/railuk.com\/?p=181259"},"modified":"2025-08-12T20:21:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T10:21:00","slug":"greek-street-bridge-out-with-the-old-now-its-in-with-the-new-in-stockport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=265735","title":{"rendered":"Greek Street bridge \u2013 out with the old, now it\u2019s in with the new in Stockport"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A 67-year-old railway bridge carrying a roundabout over the West Coast Main Line in Stockport has been successfully removed in the first week of its major \u00a320m replacement.<\/p>\n

Network Rail is ten days into a 21-day railway closure for the huge civil engineering project to transform transport in the town.<\/p>\n

Around 100 engineers per day are working around the clock to rebuild the Greek Street bridge.<\/p>\n

One week into the highly anticipated project, 200 old concrete beams have been cut out and removed from the site by Network Rail\u2019s contractor, Murphy. <\/p>\n

Lifted by two huge cranes, with a combined capacity of 1300 tonnes, the redundant bridge beams were carefully placed to the ground and taken off site by a fleet of 67 heavy goods vehicles (HGVs). <\/p>\n

With a 60m cavernous gap where the old bridge used to be, the team can now prepare to install the new bridge this week.<\/p>\n

The new bridge structure is made up of 51 parts* which will be moved into their final position by the two crawler cranes, which have a maximum hoisting height of 196m.<\/p>\n

Today, Network Rail has released footage of the first week of work, showing the impressive scale of the task at hand.<\/p>\n

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