The contracts for the bridge were awarded on 20 March 1962 for £495,695, and construction began on 16 July 1962.

The bridge was constructed by the Danish bridge-builder Christiani & Nielsen.

[2] Another Danish civil engineering company Bierrum built the near cooling towers, along the River Trent to the north.

The Newark bypass was built by Robert McGregor & Sons who would have laid the concrete pavement on the bridge.

It is a reinforced-concrete bridge made out of nine box girders.