I worked on the Bridge in 1967....It was my first experience of large scale works....Jimmy Doherty was the General Foreman and obviously a genius given the kit he had at his disposal..The steel erectors on temporary works were the stars of the show...Safety helmets were thin on the ground and a few bevvies at lunchtime were the order of the day....overall a great memory of some exceptional character's....many I'm sure long gone....cheers to their memory.

Here in Uruguay, the government has managed to renew the main railroad line in order to be operated by of the Finnish forest industry company UPM-Kymmene Oyj once its pulp plant is set in. To achieve this goal, the government has invested an exorbitant fortune to remake the railroad, and this will count on many bypasses, like tunnels, bridges and viaducts. The problem is that the line has just one track and for 3 years (2019-2022), railway traffic will be kept stopped, and that has injured our already poor, weak, damaged, and very old railway transport, which has benefited the route traffic even more than it already is, like buses and tracks. However, someone who is neither from the UK, nor any developed country (and I include myself), can easily surprise by watching this video and knowing that already in the later 1960s the British could remake a nine-tracks railway bridge without calling off eight of its tacks. That's what I really call "progress"

I'm glad this was done in a time when we (the UK that is) manufactured our own cement.

Good to see old Brunswick yard on the downriver side of old Nine Elms Lane. Apparently when the contractors were clearing the site before the building of St George Wharf they found two layers of tracks. At some stage during the  early 20th century the permanent way lads had just laid ballast on the original 1850's trackwork and laid new sleepers and rails on top.
Brunswick House was once the offices of the London and South West Railway and the paraffin store for the lamps on the buffer stops was built against the Western wall of the house.
Legally locomotives weren't supposed to cross Nine Elms Lane, first horses then a tractor moved them into the yard but those bridge sections probably needed more than a tractor to go at that speed. Great video this, and a useful health and safety instructional film.

I remember winding those winches for about 2 hours. From what I recall the spans where winched by hand for accurate placement beneath the gantry that lifted them into their final position. My Father had the contract to supply the Watermen and the boats used on this construction.

I shudder to think how many times I was on the Brighton trains while all this was going on underneath us all!...completely unaware of it until now...60 years later...thank you for sharing this glorious footage...

Damn good all the way around for the 1960s, and better and much more pleasant to watch than just about anything today. Did I mention no stupid annoying music. Wonderful.

Amazing engineers and iron workers, It wasn't the easiest retro refit of a RxR bridge,,, easiest would have been to shut the whole works down and remove and replace completely,, but with 1000 trains a day this couldn't be done, not for the time needed.  This really must have taken a lot of thinking and design ideas before they came up with a workable model. Outstanding.

Amazed at how the work was engineered and well thought out with what machinery was available at that time.

Ernest Marples distanced himself from the civil engineering  company as the business was in his wife's name. Funny how history repeats itself, I seem to recall this excuse on a number of occasions.

What great '60s music. Seeing all those green CEPs makes you realise how much we have lost.

I'm telling you, YouTube is just amazing, allowing people like you to share such interesting things with people like me, and I thank you for doing so.

Nothing like doing heavy construction work in your tie, overcoat, everyday shoes and hatless! A fascinating story - thanks for uploading.

Many thanks for making this rarely seen film available to us.  You Tube at its very best.

Notice how slim and well dressed everyone was back then.

Maybe I am a little bit cuckoo, but I have watched this twice. Fascinating! Thank you!

I see Marples had his dodgy little fingers in the pie...

HFS. No computers were harmed (or used) during the remaking of the Grosvenor Bridge. Mind boggled.

Listening to the introduction made me feel like driving an MG...

I personally love these old films, look at the manpower and how many people worked on it, compare that now in 2020 more machines do the work now.
I find these kinds of films from England's past interesting because I myself drove on England from various countries in Europe for many years and end up driving on the left? ha ha you are completely used to that for one day, yes really, so much so that when you got off the ferry in Hoek van Holland or Dunkirk / calais you almost left again, strange feeling, ha ha