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The bridge includes a series of simply supported spans, two of which collapsed in 2009 and were replaced. The replaced spans are stiffer than most of the others and these differences resulted in higher natural frequencies. An indirect bridge monitoring approach is employed in which acceleration responses from an instrumented train are used to estimate the natural frequencies of each span of the viaduct showing the locations of the two replaced spans with higher stiffness. For the indirect approach, an Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition (EEMD)-based Hilbert Huang Transform (HHT) technique is employed to identify the natural frequency of each span. This is carried out by analysing the Instantaneous Frequencies (IFs) from the calculated intrinsic mode functions. The average of the IFs calculated using 41 runs of the instrumented train (with varying carriage mass and speed for each run) are used to estimate the natural frequencies. To assess the feasibility of the indirect approach, a bespoke set of direct measurements was taken using accelerometers attached successively on each span of the viaduct. The free and forced vibrations from each span are used to estimate the first natural frequencies. The frequencies obtained from drive-by measurements are compared to those from direct measurements which confirms the effectiveness of indirect approaches. In addition, the instantaneous amplitudes of the drive-by signals are used to indicate the location of the stiffer spans. 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