{"id":3666,"date":"2025-08-12T10:42:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T09:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.murphygroup.com\/?p=3666"},"modified":"2026-01-09T11:04:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T11:04:14","slug":"greek-street-bridge-out-with-the-old-in-with-the-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.murphygroup.com\/staging\/greek-street-bridge-out-with-the-old-in-with-the-new\/","title":{"rendered":"Greek Street bridge – *out with the old, in with the new*"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Around 100 engineers per day are working around the clock to rebuild the Greek Street bridge.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A 67-year-old railway bridge carrying a roundabout over the West Coast Main Line in Stockport has been successfully removed in the first week of its major \u00a320m replacement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our Murphy project team is ten days into a 21-day railway closure for the huge civil engineering project to transform transport in the Northwest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One week into the highly anticipated project, 200 old concrete beams have been cut out and removed from the site.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lifted by two huge cranes, with a combined capacity of 1300 tonnes, the redundant bridge beams were carefully placed to the ground and taken off site by a fleet of 67 heavy goods vehicles (HGVs). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With a 60m cavernous gap where the old bridge used to be, the team can now prepare to install the new bridge this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new bridge structure is made up of 51 parts which will be moved into their final position by the two crawler cranes, which have a maximum hoisting height of 196m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Footage of the first week of work is now available, showing the impressive scale of the task at hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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