Track record

2007-12-20T00:00:00

Racing cars and yachts are the main users of FRP, fibre-reinforced polymers. But it could be coming soon to a train line near you. Parsons Brinckerhoff has just completed the first-ever self-supporting FRP bridge over the mainline railway at St Austell, Cornwall (pictured).

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