Middlesbrough's iconic Transporter Bridge is 100 years old today!
You can read about it here http://www.middlesbrough.gov.uk/ccm/navigation/leisure-and-culture/local-history-and-heritage/historic-buildings-and-structures/transporter-bridge/;jsessionid=84D8D59B28FEDCE1B7163B7A413CB91B (http://www.middlesbrough.gov.uk/ccm/navigation/leisure-and-culture/local-history-and-heritage/historic-buildings-and-structures/transporter-bridge/;jsessionid=84D8D59B28FEDCE1B7163B7A413CB91B)
I should point out that it does in fact run on rails and therefore is a kind of upside down ultra broad gauge railway.
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Kirky
Quote from: kirky on October 17, 2011, 08:28:26 AM
Middlesbrough's iconic Transporter Bridge is 100 years old today!
You can read about it here http://www.middlesbrough.gov.uk/ccm/navigation/leisure-and-culture/local-history-and-heritage/historic-buildings-and-structures/transporter-bridge/;jsessionid=84D8D59B28FEDCE1B7163B7A413CB91B (http://www.middlesbrough.gov.uk/ccm/navigation/leisure-and-culture/local-history-and-heritage/historic-buildings-and-structures/transporter-bridge/;jsessionid=84D8D59B28FEDCE1B7163B7A413CB91B)
I should point out that it does in fact run on rails and therefore is a kind of upside down ultra broad gauge railway.
:beers:
Kirky
Fascinating Kirky....i didn't know there were any still in operation.....
There used to be a transporter bridge across the River Mersey from Runcorn were i live....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCDM9p09lSg&feature=related
Newport is the other operational one in the UK
My Dad took me to see the Middlesborough bridge in 1959. Think we spent about an hour gazing at it. I was 4.