Chepstow Rail Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 August 1954. Rail bridge.
Chepstow Rail Bridge
- WRENN ID
- riven-panel-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Constituency
- Forest of Dean MP: Matt Bishop (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 August 1954
- Type
- Rail bridge
- Address
- Chepstow Rail Bridge, Tidenham, Forest of Dean
- OS grid reference
- ST 539 940
- Coordinates
- 51.64371, -2.66676
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chepstow Rail Bridge is a rail bridge over the River Wye, built in 1849 by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. It features a large inverted 'W' girder that spans the river from the east side to a group of six tubular iron supports. On the Welsh (west) side, there are three spans in a simple channel form, supported by two sets of three tubular iron supports, leading to a heavy stone abutment that connects to the railway embankment. The balustrade is made of profiled pressed steel. Most of the superstructure is not original, with the main work by Brunel being in the tubular supports.
Local climate
Chepstow Rail Bridge receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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