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The 500 feet span Victoria Fall Bridge was built to take the Cape to Cairo railway line over the Zambesi River.
At the time it was the longest of its type in the world and helped establish the Fox family as leading designers of long-span bridges.
The surveying work for the bridge almost claimed the life of Charles Beresford Fox, grandson of Sir Charles Fox, who was saved by a small, lone fig tree growing on the cliff face.
The bridge was for the use of the public and was at all times free of toll much to the concern of Windsor's Corporation who lost revenue from their toll bridge as a result, but were recompensed by The Treasury.
VictoriaBridge was built originally at the same time as the Albert Bridge in 1851 and paid for in part by the Windsor, Staines and Richmond Railway Company, anxious to extend their line from Staines, through Datchet to Windsor, in the hope of royal patronage.
VictoriaBridge was reopened in 1967 but not before the railway company, the nationalised British Railways by this time, had been pressed to make a substantial contribution towards the cost of repairing the bridge, the upkeep of which their predecessors had been responsible for over the preceding 110 years.
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