skew bridge

plural skew bridges

1. A bridge built obliquely from bank to bank, as sometimes required in railway or highway engineering.

   The widening works include the rebuilding of the skew bridge near Northwood to take four tracks, and to enable the Rickmansworth Road to be widened to 60 ft.; […].

   1959 November 28, “Notes and News: Harrow-Rickmansworth Widening”, in Railway Magazine, page 802

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   Just beyond Widmerpool the railway crosses the Roman Fosse Way on the skew. In The Midland Railway: Its Rise and Progress Frederick S. Williams wrote in 1877 that "in reverence to the past, the Midland acquiesced in the matter of a skew bridge, so that the lengthy straight course of the Fosse Way should not be disturbed".

   1959 June, J. F. Oxley, D. R. Smith, “The Nottingham-Kettering line of the L.M.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 319–320

   Synonyms: oblique bridge