Just off #Purton lies the wrecks of The #Arkendale H & the #Wastdale H, upstream from the entrance to #Sharpness Docks. The #Severn #Railway #Bridge took 4 years to build from 1875 and was completed in 1879. The Railway Bridge was 4,162 feet long and 70 feet above high water with 22 spans across the Severn. On 25 October 1960, in very thick fog combined with a very strong tide, two barges - the Arkendale H and Wastdale H - which had both missed the Sharpness #Dock entrance on the #River #Severn,