Tinsley Viaduct

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Release Date	Release Name	Version	Position	Extra
01 January 2006	The Indictment	British, Collection, Special, MP3	4	--

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Information:

Tinsley Viaduct is a two-tier road bridge in Sheffield, England; the first of its kind in the country. It carries the M1 and the A631 some 1033 metres over the Don Valley, from Tinsley to Wincobank. It is located at 53°25′N 1°24′W.

The viaduct was opened in March 1968 and cost £6 million to build. It was designed to carry three lanes of traffic each way on the top (motorway) deck, but this has since been reduced to two lanes following an EU directive on load bearing. The bridge has since been strengthened, in 1983 and again recently, with work finished in spring 2006. Although originally designed to carry 6 lanes, during the strengthening work the M1 was reduced to 4 lanes. This arrangement has now been made permanent to allow the third lane in each direction to join from J34 to make the very busy junction safer.

The viaduct is balanced on rollers to allow for thermal expansion and contraction, and the route weaves slightly in order to make its way past other buildings. As things currently stand, the Meadowhall Shopping Centre lies in the valley to the west, while to the east is the Blackburn Meadows sewage works.

For more information, please see: http://irsociety.co.uk/Archives/23/Tinsley.htm and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinsley_Viaduct