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Miscellaneous Motorway Documents. Box 4 - Bridges and General Design
List of material held in the Lancashire CC Record Office

ITEMDESCRIPTIONDATEAUTHOR/ORIGINATOR
1

'The Structural Behaviour of Steel and Concrete Box Girder Bridges'
A paper presented to a joint meeting of Institution of Highway Engineers and the Institution of Structural Engineers in London

1971Chapman, Dowling, Lim and Billington
2

'Steel Bridges in Lancashire'
A paper presented to a conference of the British Constructional Steelwork Association giving details of many Lancashire motorway bridges

1966J M Smith
3

'Centenary Symposium on Bridges'
Four papers presented to the Lancashire Branch of the North Western Association of the Institution of Civil Engineers

19th February 1986--
4

'Getting the best roads for our Money'
A booklet on the COBA [cost-benefit analysis] method of appraisal

undatedDepartment of Transport
5

'Lancashire Bridges'
Notes

1998H A Hall and J Wallwork
6

'Lancashire Bridges'
A letter giving information on bridges in general and on Preston By Pass in particular, together with a revised version

probably 1998R W Melville
7

'Design and Construction of curved steel bridges in Lancashire'
A paper presented to the BCSA conference on steel bridges

1968J Murray and Dr W W Rigbye
8

'Road Note 29 - A guide to the structural design of pavements for new roads'
Design manual. Third Edition

1970Department of the Environment
Road Research Laboratory
9

'Steps to design a New Motorway (the "39 Steps")'
An undated document outlining step-by-step procedures from conception to construction.
A hypothesised 6-year programme

?Department of the Environment
10

'Modern British Bridges'
A book with photographs and diagrams of bridges nationwide including many motorway bridges

1965Dorothy Henry and J A Jerome
published by C R Books Ltd
11

'Economic Justification of Road Works'
Paper presented to the IXth Congress of the Permanent International Association of Road Congresses (PIARC) in Lisbon

1951Brunner, Gresham Cooke, Cotton and Drake
12

'Floodlighting of Bridges in Lancashire'
A booklet giving details of bridges to be floodlit to mark the inauguration of M62 by HM the Queen

October 1971County Surveyor's Department
Lancashire County Council
13

'Route Location'
A paper

1999Stewart Coleman
14

'Large Motorway/Railway Intersection Bridges in the North West'
A short summary of rail/motorway bridges from a railway point of view

1999Martin S Welsh
formerly Bridge Engineer, British Rail
15

'BR/Highway Authority Agreement for Bridge Construction'
A photocopy of a letter from the Ministry of Transport to British Railways setting out the terms of agreement for the construction of an overline bridge.
(Though this letter relates specifically to a bridge on M62 at Robin Hood sidings on the Manchester-Bolton railway line, it is a good example of virtually standard agreements for such bridges.)

2nd December 1966Ministry of Transport