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The Ordsall Chord railway project interfaced with several historic structures forming part of the 1830 Liverpool and Manchester Railway . This paper discusses the stone and brick structures, including the Grade I Listed River Irwell Bridge, describing how appropriate repair specifications were developed, how repair methods were trialled, and how works were undertaken to successfully safeguard the heritage assets.
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This page is a summary of: The Ordsall Chord: Conservation Architecture and Engineering. Part 2: Repairs to stone and brick structures, Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering History and Heritage, June 2019, ICE Publishing,
DOI: 10.1680/jenhh.19.00010.
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