A new railway bridge, completed in seven days of intensive 24-hour working over Christmas, has cleared a major obstruction to restoration of the Cotswold Canals, and kept the Cotswold Canals Connected project on track to complete the rebuilding of a four-mile length of canal. Construction of the Ocean Railway Bridge at Stonehouse (replacing an original structure replaced by an earth embankment in 1968) saw 150 staff create the new structure from concrete sections weighing up to 64 tonnes each, shift 4000 tonnes of material for foundations and embankment backfill, and lay 500 tonnes of railway track ballast stone before reinstating the tracks in time for the first train to pass when the line reopened on New Year's Day.
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