Keadby Bridge, Gunness, North Lincolnshire
This bridge is a rail and road rolling lift bridge. It was built in 1912-16 by C A Rowlandson and J B Ball, engineers, Sir William Arrol and Company, contractors. It was built for the Great Central Railway. The bridge was the Great Central Railway's greatest bridge undertaking, and replaced their nearby 1866 swing bridge. At the time of construction Keadby was one of the first Scherzer bridges in Britain, the heaviest and longest in Europe, and the first anywhere with 3 girders. A plaque formerly on the eastern approach parapet recorded the opening on May 21 1916 by the chairmen of the railway company and Lindsey County Council, who contributed towards the cost of providing for a road section.
