Strain data collected during the casting and curing of a concrete deck on a single span half-through composite rail-over-rail bridge near Stafford UK. The data was collected for the ME01 project being carried out in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge. The ME01 project is a fibre optic instrumentation and dynamic monitoring programme at Norton Bridge, UK, part of the Stafford Area Improvements Programme (Staffordshire Alliance). The strain data was collected using fibre optic monitoring technologies based on fibre Bragg gratings.