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John McLoughlin Bridge, spanning the Clackamas River, designed by bridge engineer Conde B. McCullough, designer of the famous Oregon Coast Highway bridges. Oregon City, Oregon
The original Ryde Bridge was opened on 7 December 1935 . An additional bridge was constructed adjacent to the east side of this bridge to carry southbound traffic, leaving the original bridge for northbound traffic only in 1988.
The original bridge is a lift bridge, which was required to allow shipping to pass to the State Timber Yard then located on the southern bank of the Parramatta river, just west of the bridge. However the lifting mechanism was removed in the late 20th Century and it has not been opened since.
The bridge was paid for by the Ryde Council (with the assistance of a grant from the New South Wales Government). The bridge carried a toll for 13 years. At the end of this period the bridge was paid for and the toll was removed.
Transporter Bridge over River Tees, 1911 by G.C. Imbault (Cleveland Bridge and Engineering Co.Ltd.) engineer; constructed by Sir William Arrol and Company Limited (Glasgow). Opened by Prince Arthur of Connaught. Plated and riveted steel. 2 pairs of tapering towers on steel and concrete caissons, support main cantilevered trusses, of which lower chord carries trolley way. Catwalk along trolley way 49m above water, and 260m. in length, with 174m. span over river. Clusters of woven steel wire tension ropes connect outward tips of trusses vertically down to concrete anchorage blocks set into the ground. Carriage suspended on steel wire ropes, from trolley hauled by 2 ropes connected to electrically powered winch, in housing on south bank of river. Carriage damaged by enemy action in 1940. EH Listing
IMechE Engineering Heritage Award. www.imeche.org/engineering-heritage-awards
Celebrating its 25th birthday today (29 June).
I like the bridge and can't remember life without it.
The Pattullo Bridge is a compression arch suspended-deck bridge located in the Greater Vancouver Regional District of British Columbia, Canada. Constructed in 1936-37, it spans the Fraser River and links the city of New Westminster on the north bank of the river to the city of Surrey on the south bank. The Bridge's base is constructed of wood. The bridge forms part of Highways 1A and 99A.
The Pattullo Bridge, which is 1,221 meters (4,006 ft) in total length, consists of four lanes (two in each direction) with no barrier of any sort in the centre, making it highly prone to head-on collisions, especially at excessive speed or bad weather. The province and TransLink have since closed the middle lanes to traffic from 10:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. in an effort to lower the high number of fatal head-on collisions that occur, and installed a series of plastic pillars to raise visibility of the centre lane divider. On January 2, 2006, four people were killed in a T-bone collision between two cars on the southern approach lane.
In response to the high number of crashes that take place on the bridge, TransLink is studying the idea of reducing the number of lanes on the bridge from four to three utilizing a counterflow operation. This arrangement is similar to what is being used on the Lions Gate Bridge with the number of lanes being varied depending on traffic flow and volume. A second key and more controversial proposal, is to install photo radar on the bridge to enforce the existing speed limit. Thus far, the provincial government have ruled out the idea of photo radar being brought back.[1]
On July 31, 2008 TransLink decided to replace the Pattullo Bridge rather than try to repair the aging, narrow-laned structure, and told staff to start planning for it as a toll bridge. [2]
Its appearance of dark orange colour and arch shape highly resembles the Port Mann Bridge, located just a few kilometres upstream. The bridge was named for Thomas Dufferin Pattullo, former premier of British Columbia
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First opened in 1940,
opens for the Falie.
Port Adelaide,
South Australia.
I don't know where she is going..
not good lighting here, but I thought the image was interesting enough, certainly the story is...
www.afloat.com.au/afloat-magazine/2008/november-2008/Is_F...
The Falie is a 46-metre (151 ft) ketch that traded for many years in Australian waters. Originally built in 1919 as the motor schooner collier Hollands Trouw, she was purchased by the Spencer's Gulf Transport Company, renamed, and used for coastal trading in South Australia. The vessel commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) as HMAS Falie during World War II, serving first as an inspection vessel primarily patrolling the Port of Sydney, Australia, then as a stores ship.
Returned to her owners in 1946, Falie was used to transport explosives around Australia before resuming the South Australian coastal trade to Kangaroo Island and on occasion carrying bulk Gypsum from Stenhouse Bay from 1968. She was retired in 1982, then purchased by the South Australian government for preservation. Although initially used for day and overnight sails, by 2005 the ship had fallen into disrepair. WIkipedia
Warrington Transporter Bridge (also known as Bank Quay Transporter Bridge or Crosfield's Transporter Bridge) across the River Mersey is a structural steel transporter bridge with a span of 200 feet (61 metres). It is 30 feet wide (9 metres), and 76 feet (23metres) above high water level, with an overall length of 339 feet (103 metres). It was built in 1915 and, although it has been out of use since about 1964, it is still standing. It was designed by William Henry Hunter and built by William Arrol and Co.
Aurora Bridge, 167 feet above the water level of Lake Union.
Officially called the George Washington Memorial Bridge, it opened on George Washington's 200th birthday in 1932. Between its construction and 2011, when 8-foot fences were added on either side of the pedestrian walkways, there were 230 known suicides here, a grim record exceeded only by the Golden Gate Bridge.
Photographed from the east walkway of the Fremont Bridge.
a bridge which used to have checkpoint, on danube river, uniting hungary and slovakia, in the cities sturovo and esztergom
Skansen Bridge (Norwegian: Skansen jernbanebro) is a 52 meter span bascule railway bridge located at Skansen in Trondheim, Norway beside Skansen Station. The bridge was opened on March 22, 1918 allowing trains on Dovrebanen access to Trondheim Central Station while also being able to open to allow ships on the Trondheim Canal access to the Trondheimsfjord. It was built at the same time Dovrebanen was rebuilt from narrow gauge (1067 mm) to standard gauge (1435 mm) and the stretch between Marienborg and Trondheim Central Station was double tracked.
The bridge was designed by Joseph Strauss, who among other things also constructed the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, USA. In 2006 the bridge was conserved by the Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage, since Skansen Bridge is unique in Norway and only one of a few of its kind left in the world. The conservation includes the entire bridge including construction and technical equipment, the guard cabin and the transformer building. The conservation does not include the railway track, signal equipment or the overhead wires.
We are in Japan! Nikko, to be specific! You'll have to wait a couple of weeks for photos from the camera, but here is an iPhone preview. :)
Fifth and final shot here of the Vizcaya Transporter Bridge connecting Portugalete and Las Arenas (Getxo) on opposite banks of the Nervion River between the river mouth in the Bay of Biscay and the city of Bilbao.
This was the world's first Transporter Bridge, built in 1893 and designed by Alberto Palacio to provide a means of linking the two towns across the river without disrupting maritime traffic to and from Bilbao and without the need to build a massive structure with long ramps.
164 metres long, the bridge is still in use and the gondola can transport six cars and several dozen foot passengers, making the crossing in about 90 seconds.
As well as crossing the bridge in the gondola it is also possible to travel up in a lift in the towers on either side and walk across the top of the bridge.
Only 23 bridges of this type have been built in the world and only 12 of these survive to this day (this includes one now converted to a lift bridge, and one which was designed as a transporter bridge but has not operated as one).
4 of these 12 transporter bridges can be found in the UK, the only one of these being in use at the time of posting this picture is the Middlesborough Transporter Bridge, built in 1911.
The transporter bridges at Newport (1906) and Warrington (1916) are both out of use, and the most recent - the Royal Victoria Dock Bridge in London (1998) - was designed to allow use as a transporter bridge but is only in use as a high-level footbridge.
The Story Bridge is a steel cantilever bridge spanning the Brisbane River that carries vehicules, bikes and pedestrians between the northern and the southern banks of the Brisbane river, Queensland, Australia. It is the longest cantilever bridge in Australia.
It is named John Story, a public servant.