Skanska to install Midlands’ longest rail bridge – video

Final preparations are underway to install a landmark railway bridge in Birmingham that will become the longest single-span railway structure in the West Midlands.
The new 2,600-tonne structure, known as the SAS 13 bridge, has been pre-assembled by contractor Skanska over the last 22 months in a huge compound beside the existing railway lines.
This weekend the 92-metre-long bridge in Stechford will be driven into place to allow HS2 tracks to pass underneath it.

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