The View at Barnes Bridge

A team of local enthusiasts, supported by the Barnes Community Association, has a vision to transform the historically important and long-redundant Grade II listed span of Barnes Railway Bridge, crossing the Thame, into an attractive landscaped walkway provisionally called The View at Barnes Bridge.

If successful, The View at Barnes Bridge will be the first Thames green crossing, linking Barnes and Chiswick (Dukes Meadow). The project will make use of the surviving and long-redundant original railway bridge of 1849 which was designed by well-known bridge engineer Joseph Locke.

Over the last few years the team behind the project has managed to secure the support of Network Rail who own the bridge, of Councils both side of the river and of our local MP. We are now looking for volunteers with a legal background or experience in the commercial property or construction industry to join our small team to help us with this exciting project. If you have the experience we need, feel excited about the potential of this project for the area, and would like to help us make our vision a reality, please do get in touch with Emma emma@barnes-ca.org.  For more information about the project visit The View at Barnes Bridge

A bit of history about Barnes Bridge

The original Barnes Railway Bridge was designed by the London and South Western Railway’s eminent civil engineer Joseph Locke with his associate, John Errington, and built by the great Victorian contractor Thomas Brassey and opened in August, 1849.

In 1893-1895 a new double-bridge was built adjacent to the 1849 bridge leaving the original bridge intact. The new bridge opened in June, 1895. The original bridge was closed and has remained disused ever since. It was given protection as a Grade II listed structure in 1983. It is not easy to spot that there are two bridges side-by-side at Barnes Bridge unless you are looking for them.