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This very long exposure shows the lights beginning to highlight the bridge, with the sky darkening behind as a storm moves in from the south-east. Taken in the blue hour after sunset from the riverside esplanade in front of City Hall on the River Thames's southern bank.
The bridge is one of five London bridges now owned and maintained by the Bridge House Estates, a charitable trust overseen by the City of London Corporation. It is the only one of the Trust's bridges not to connect the City of London to the Southwark bank, the northern landfall being in Tower Hamlets. The bridge is 244m in length with two towers each 65m high, built on piers. The central span of 61m between the towers is split into two equal bascules or leaves, which can be raised to an angle of 83° to allow river traffic to pass. The bascules weigh over 1,000 tons each and are counterbalanced to minimise the force required, allowing raising in five minutes. The original raising mechanism was powered by pressurised water stored in several hydraulic accumulators.
If you've never wandered through a city with a wide angle lens and pointed your camera up, I strongly suggest you give it a go. ;)
"OLD RIVETS IN BLUE". Still going strong 44 years after it was built, GG1-4800 is easing through Bayview Yard under I-895, the Baltimore Harbor Tunnel Throughway, with train BW1. GG1-4853 provides additional juice. On the left, still in service at this time, is Bay Tower. On the right, Southern Railway NW2-1032 is parked with capped stacks, in transit to the Port Jersey RR in the Greenville/Bayonne area of NJ. Later on, it would end up on the Reading & Northern as a parts source for their NW2-1000. It was scrapped in 1996. Thanks to Frank Trotola, Kermit Geary & Bruce Kerr for the NW2 info; George Pitz for train ID. 4:55PM on 2/19/78 in E. Baltimore, MD.
© Elka Nilsson
Pedestrian bridge to 'The Barcode*, Oslo Norway
Explore, Highest position: 100 on Saturday, November 2, 2013
nesesito ese invierno , nesesito ese dolor de hueso nesesito sentir tus abrazos al momento de abrigarme frente a este gran frio qe me rodea ...
La E483.012 di Captrain Italia transita a Genova Nervi in testa ad un treno merci proveniente da Rho e diretto a Scarlino.
The E483.012 of Captrain Italia is passing in Genova Nervi with a freight train from Rho to Scarlino.
Doug Harrop Photography • March 27, 1983
The eastbound Rio Grande Zephyr, train No. 18 approaches the signals and switches that mark the west end of Gilluly, Utah in Spanish Fork Canyon. A summit of the 50-mile, 3,000 ft. climb from Provo, Utah is about 10 miles away at Soldier Summit.
奥の巨大な斜張橋は1989（平成元）年に開通した横浜ベイブリッジ。
向かって左手前マンションビルの間に見える網目のような上部のデザインが特徴的なトラス橋は霞橋。イギリスで製作され1896（明治29）年に日本鉄道土浦線（現常磐線）隅田川橋梁として造られたが複線化に伴い架け替えられ1929（昭和4）年に川崎市と横浜市をつなぐ江ヶ崎跨線橋として部分的に再利用された。その後、老朽化のため2009（平成21）年撤去され、その際、早稲田大学創造理工学部の佐々木葉教授ら学識経験者が歴史的な土木構造物として横浜市に保存を要請し部材が市によって保管され2013（平成25）年にここ新山下の霞橋として再生された。
因みに両橋とも「土木学会田中賞」を受賞している。