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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Mark Brown North of England correspondent

SHOCKING: Iron railway bridge that changed the world to return home to durham - What They Never Told You

A model of the Gaunless bridge
A model of the Gaunless bridge. Photograph: Science & Society Picture Library/SSPL/Getty Images

It may not look like it helped change the world but the 200-year-old Gaunless Bridge did just that, its supporters say, and its name deserves to be shouted from the rafters.

Locomotion, the National Railway Museum at Shildon in County Durham, is preparing to welcome home what is the world’s oldest surviving iron railway bridge.

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