Hull’s River Bridges: Stoneferry Bridge
Stoneferry Bridge, like Ennerdale Link, is actually two bascule bridges, working independently and each carrying two lanes of traffic. Built between 1988 and completed on 23rd July 1991, they replaced the original swing bridge built in 1905.
The website Structurae notes they are “twin Shadoof-type bascule bridges with 32 meter counterbalanced counter levers. Erection of the steel decks’ A frame was by the use of a combination of land and floating cranes.”
In the first gallery below you can see the original site plan along with the first of the new bridges being put into place. The north bridge is installed first to allow the continued flow of road traffic, whilst the south bridge replaced the old swing bridge.
Click on the images in each gallery to see the plans in detail.
Photograph by Dave Barker for the Hull Daily Mail: “The old and the new, progress on the new bridge on Clough Road.” 24/10/1989
Stoneferry – Section through South Abutment Cylinder Room
Cylinder Room and Hydraulics
Stoneferry – Bridge and Deck Counterbalance Elevation and the last run of the Swinderby through Stoneferry by Stephen Oakden
Stoneferry from the river and deck of the motor barge Syntan in 2017 and from the road in 2019 by Richard Duffy-Howard
This lovely image of the new bridges at Stoneferry was taken by Imagaril on 10th April 2011. It’s part of a gallery on the website Structurae, which is an international database and gallery of structures. You can visit Structurae here to see more photographs of Stoneferry under construction: https://structurae.net/en/structures/stoneferry-bridge
Stoneferry – Site Plan New Bridges, 1987
Rich and Lou Duffy-Howard
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