The Cremorne Bridge is more popularly known as Battersea Railway Bridge and is the river crossing from the line running from Clapham Junction to Willesden Junction. The bridge was designed by William Baker, the chief engineer with the London and North Western Railway and opened in March 1863 to freight traffic only. Passenger services did not begin until 1904. It carries two sets of railway lines and is made up of five lattice girded spans supported on stone piers. The bridge has undergone strengthening work in 1969 and 1992 and trains crossing the bridge are subject to a speed restriction of 15 mph. The bridge is now dominated by the residential development of Imperial Wharf on the north bank. So large is this new development that a new station is expected to be developed.
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