Post-LNER of course, and fortunately immediately detected by the chance of ballasting work underway very nearby as the collapse began. Anyone happen to know what cause was determined?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-englan ... s-66822128
Archive footage of the Wrestlers Bridge collapse 1966
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Re: Archive footage of the Wrestlers Bridge collapse 1966
We wasn't living in WGC at the time of the bridge collapse because we only moved to WGC in September of 1966 but the first time that I heard it mentioned was around 1968. From memory a pedestrian walkway perched high above all four running lines replaced the collapsed bridge just north of the collapsed Wrestlers bridge between 1966 and through the rest of the 1960s and the 1970s and may well have even lasted into the 1980s.
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