To the west of the building the grounds are bounded by 109 Street and the former rail right-of-way coming north from the High Level Bridge, now used the High Level Bridge Streetcar and a walking path, with Victoria Park and Golf Course and the Grandin neighbourhood beyond.
Another plan for a high level bridge was that of Richard Grainger, who proposed to erect a superstructure on the Tyne Bridge, consisting of a viaduct for passengers and other traffic, supported on metal tubes resting upon piers of the bridge.
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The bridge was built for the York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway, and together with Stephenson's Royal Border Bridge at Berwick upon Tweed, completed the line of a London-Edinburgh railway nowadays known as the East Coast Main Line.
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Wrought iron construction of bridges in the UK was later pioneered by Isambard Kingdom Brunel (Clifton Suspension Bridge and Royal Albert Bridge) and Robert Stephenson, son of George (Newcastle's High Level Bridge).
Slightly upstream was Robert Stephenson's new High Level Bridge, completed five years previously in 1849, an ingenious double-decker design allowing railway traffic on the upper deck and road traffic on the lower.
He was known for his two major projects on the CPR, the Lethbridge Viaduct or High Level Bridge in Lethbridge, Alberta, and the Spiral Tunnels, which eliminated the Big Hill near Field, British Columbia.
By the late 1950s with the passing of the landmark Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956, the location of the new highway was shifted south and included a high-level bridge across the Taunton River with a route through the center of Fall River through the Narrows and onto New Bedford and Cape Cod.