Grosvenor Bridge

Grosvenor Bridge
Grosvenor Bridge with Battersea Power Station in the background
Carries	Railway
Crosses	River Thames
Locale	London, England
Preceded by	Chelsea Bridge
Followed by	Vauxhall Bridge
Characteristics
Design	Arch bridge
Total length	283.5 m (930 ft 1 in)
Width	54 m (177 ft 2 in)
Longest span	53.3 m (174 ft 10 in)
History
Opened	1860; rebuilt 1963-1967

Coordinates: 51°29′05″N 0°08′51″W / 51.48472°N 0.14750°W / 51.48472; -0.14750

Grosvenor Bridge, originally known as, and alternatively called Victoria Railway Bridge, is a railway bridge over the River Thames in London, between Vauxhall Bridge and Chelsea Bridge. Originally constructed in 1860, and widened in 1865 and 1907, the bridge was extensively rebuilt and widened again in the 1960s as an array of ten parallel bridges.

The original bridge was constructed in the mid-nineteenth century in two stages: the first bridge was built by the Victoria Station and Pimlico Railway between 1859 and 1860 at a cost of £84,000 to carry two tracks into Victoria Station; it was the first railway bridge across the Thames in central London. The engineer was Sir John Fowler.

The bridge was widened by four tracks on the eastern side for the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway and London, Chatham and Dover Railway between 1865 and 1866, at a cost of £245,000. Sir Charles Fox was the engineer.

In 1907 the bridge was widened again with a further track, on the western side, for the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway.