Link and pin from the river Wye bridge at Chepstow

Link and pin from the river Wye bridge at Chepstow, also know as the 'Great Tubular Bridge', which was built in 1852 to the design of Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

These components are from the Chepstow Railway Bridge which spans the River Wye, which was considered a significant innovation in the history of bridge design. The bridge remains today, with some superstructure having since been replaced, and is considered one of Brunel's great achievements. The bridge has a tubular design which allowed it to be efficent and economically built, and was radically different from bridge design philosophy of the time.

This link and pin, which are typically used to connect and tie two girders together on the bridge, and in the case of the Chepstow bridge, would have likely been used to connect the signiture tubular girders to the bridge or to each other as part of the structure.