Stories & people
The bridge is not only timber, steel and railway track. Discover the people and incidents that shaped its story.

1892
Owens and the bridge fire
The best-known human story attached to the bridge — carefully separated from details we have not yet verified.
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1860s
Building the bridge
The railway entrepreneurs, engineers and workforce behind an ambitious estuary crossing.
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2020s
The restoration team
Modern engineering, heritage conservation and a project delivered around a working railway.
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