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The Orwell Bridge spans the River Orwell just south of Ipswich in Suffolk. The Orwell Bridge was built in 1982 and carries the A14 (which was then the A45) across the River Orwell, to relieve Ipswich of the traffic using the port of Felixstowe. Construction of the bridge commenced in October 1979 and was completed in December 1982. The main span is 190 metres, the longest pre-stressed concrete span in use at the time, and the bridge was constructed by using a balanced cantilever technique. The total length is 1,287 metres from Wherstead to the site of the former Ipswich Airport. The main contractor was the Dutch company Stevin Construction B.V. The bridge appears in the 1987 Cold War drama The Fourth Protocol, in which two RAF helicopters are shown flying under it. |
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