Construction
The Ouse Bridge Contract for £6.75 million (£61 million in today's figures) was awarded in January 1973 to a consortium of Costain Civil Engineering and Redpath Dorman Long.
There were 120 large steel cylinder piles of 1.5 metre diameter and 20 metres long driven into the ground by a self-elevating platform barge with a steam hammer. These were carried out by Raymond International.
The steelwork was fabricated at RDL works in Teesside. There were steel supply problems.
In July 1975 there was a partial collapse of a military trestle on pier 15.
It was opened on 24 May 1976. It was the last section of the main part of the M62 to open. The A63 Caves Bypass and M62 Balkholme sections (built by Clugston Construction) had opened on 19 February 1976. The Balkholme to Caves section was the first use on a UK motorway of continuously reinforced concrete pavement (CRCP), which has no transverse joints.
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