The Jubilee Bridge is a road and pedestrian/cycle bridge carrying the Queen Elizabeth Way north-south across the River Tees in the borough of Stockton-on-Tees, northern England. It links Preston-on-Tees with Ingleby Barwick. The bridge is over upriver from, and over approximately south of Stockton town centre.
Design
The Jubilee Bridge is a balanced cantilever design, 150 m long with 3 spans and a main span of 106 m. It is constructed from reinforced concrete and T-section steel plate girders. It carries dual two lane carriageways and additionally on the western side, a pedestrian cycle track linking in to the local pedestrian cycle tracks on the southern bank of the River Tees.
The piers are supported on 914 mm concrete-filled tubular steel piles and the abutments are supported by steel 'H' piles.
Construction
The bridge was built by Birse Construction Ltd with steel fabrication supplied by Cleveland Bridge & Engineering Company of Darlington.
Operation
The bridge was opened on 20 April 2002.
References
External links
Jubilee Bridge on the Bridges on the Tyne website
Jubilee Bridge at Structurae. Leaflet: tourismleafletsonline.com.