Tees Jubilee Bridge
# Tees Jubilee Bridge

54°32′06″N 1°19′16″W﻿ / ﻿54.535°N 1.321°W﻿ / 54.535; -1.321

The Jubilee Bridge is a road and pedestrian/cycle bridge carrying the Queen Elizabeth Way north-south across the River Tees in the borough of Stockton-on-Tees, northern England. It links Preston-on-Tees with Ingleby Barwick. The bridge is over 3.1 miles (5 km) upriver from, and over 1.9 miles (3 km) approximately south of Stockton town centre.

## Design

The Jubilee Bridge is a balanced cantilever design, 150 m long with 3 spans and a main span of 106 m. It is constructed from reinforced concrete and T-section steel plate girders. It carries dual two lane carriageways and additionally on the western side, a pedestrian cycle track linking in to the local pedestrian cycle tracks on the southern bank of the River Tees.

The piers are supported on 914 mm concrete-filled tubular steel piles and the abutments are supported by steel 'H' piles.

### Construction

The bridge was built by Birse Construction Ltd with steel fabrication supplied by Cleveland Bridge & Engineering Company of Darlington.

## Operation

The bridge was opened on 20 April 2002.

