Sheepwash Channel Railway Bridge

Sheepwash Channel Railway Bridge is a railway bridge over Sheepwash Channel in west Oxford, England, just north of Oxford railway station.^[1] To the north are Cripley Meadow and Fiddler's Island. To the south are Osney Island and the Botley Road.

v t e Railways around Oxford
Legend
to Banbury to Worcester to Bicester to Witney and Fairford Oxford Parkway Yarnton Oxford Road Halt Yarnton Loop City boundary Wolvercot Junction Wolvercot Platform Wolvercote Halt Oxford North Junction Port Meadow Halt Exchange sidings Sheepwash Channel Rewley Road Swing Bridge Oxford Oxford Rewley Road Osney Rail Bridge Gasworks Bridge Oxford Gas Works River Isis City boundary Oxford (Grandpont) Goods Hinksey Halt Millstream Junction Abingdon Road Halt Kennington Junction Radley Iffley Halt to Didcot Kennington Railway Bridge Littlemore Morris Cowley BMW Mini terminal Horspath Halt to Princes Risborough

Sheepwash Channel Railway Bridge
The Sheepwash Channel Railway Bridge with the old Rewley Road Swing Bridge in the foreground, on the Sheepwash Channel
Coordinates	51.755586°N 1.270946°W / 51.755586; -1.270946
Carries	Cherwell Valley Line
Crosses	Sheepwash Channel
Locale	Oxford, England
Maintained by	Network Rail
Characteristics
Design	Girder bridge
Material	Steel
No. of spans	1
Location

The bridge is close to Rewley Road Swing Bridge just to the east,^[2] an older and now disused swing bridge for the former Buckinghamshire Railway line of London and North Western Railway that used to serve the Oxford Rewley Road railway station.^[3] It is also close to Rewley Road Bridge to the east.^[1] Sheepwash channel links the River Thames with the Oxford Canal via Castle Mill Stream and Isis Lock.

Gallery

• 
  View of the Sheepwash Channel Railway Bridge in the background and the site of the old Rewley Road Swing Bridge in the foreground
• 
  The Sheepwash Channel with the new railway bridge and the old railway swing bridge
• 
  Looking north along the railway line from Oxford railway station over Sheepwash Channel Railway Bridge towards Cripley Meadow