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How drivers, transport staff and bridge owners can prevent vehicles from hitting bridges and what to do if a bridge strike happens.
Partial failure of Bridge 94, near Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, 6 April 2011.
Partial collapse of a bridge onto open railway lines at Barrow upon Soar, Leicestershire, 1 August 2016.
Failure of the River Crane railway bridge near Feltham, West London, 14 November 2009.
RAIB has today released its report into a derailment of a freight train at Audenshaw, Greater Manchester, 6 September 2024.
Collision between a train and a fallen bridge parapet at Froxfield, Wiltshire, 22 February 2015.
Location: Goole Railway Bridge, River Ouse, England.
Information for boaters on the River Nene.
River Great Ouse: bridge heights, locks, overhead power lines and facilities.
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