bridges

The aim of this outing was to look for reciprocating hydraulic motors or ‘water engines’. A few of these devices with ram cylinders extended by water pressure are still present in older bridges around the UK, or on display in museums, but derelict examples are rare…except it seems on...

This is my first report so here goes (bit dated, sorry!) The History: It’s been done on this site before, but I researched some extra details. There is some history on Three Bridges Mill available online but also in particular in the book “The Mills of Buckinghamshire” by Stanley Freese of...

Mill history from @mookster report in the mid to late 1800s the mill was owned and run by the Burton family and then at some point it was sold on to the Taylor family who lived in the house and worked the mill. The last occupant, Norman Taylor, died in 2011 and that's when the house became...

History From Wiki - Because I tried to write my own and it was awful. The Lochaber Narrow Gauge Railway was a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow-gauge industrial railway. It was a relatively long line, built for the construction and subsequent maintenance of a 15-mile-long (24-kilometre) tunnel from Loch...

UK Transporter Bridges There are four transporter bridges in the UK, although the remains of the one in Runcorn are minimal so most wouldn't count that. The bridge as a whole was demolished years ago, but the former approaches, power house and former office building are still standing. The...

History London North Western Railway built the viaduct in 1882 to bypass the congested lines leading to the present-day Leeds Station. It's 1,500 yards long and has 82 arches. The track remains on one side of a gate erected by Network Rail. Trains stopped running on the line in 1988, but the...

Hello people. Now i've done quite a bit of urbex, and know the laws regarding it are not going to bite you in the ass if you were legitimately just exploring/taking photos. As far as I can tell, they could arrest you if being suspicious or having anything on you which could be seen as...

There are three bridges that cross the river Forth at the 'important' bit, just after Edinburgh: - A big red one - A grey knackered one - A new massive one and over the past few years I've managed to weadle my way up all of em. Forth Rail Bridge The original. The classic. This hunk of...

A selection of Durhams finest space spanning architecture in different states of repair. All easy to find with some hours spent on Google maps! [/url]DSC09622 by Lewis Hobson, on Flickr More one the Flickr for lovers of bridges.

The UK's three transporter bridges A transporter bridge, also known as a ferry bridge or aerial transfer bridge, is a type of movable bridge that carries a segment of roadway across a river. The gondola is slung from a tall span by wires or a metal frame. The design has been used to cross...

The Xiang river flows north through Hunan province in Southern China before joining the Yangtze, of which it's one of its largest tributaries. Seven bridges cross it in the central area of Changsha, with at least two worthy of closer inspection. Fuyuan Road bridge This was completed in 2012...

Newport & Transporter Bridges, Middlesbrough, May 2012 With our original target for the night a failure (basically we were too late and it was gone :(), we headed over to the trusty, ever present bridges of Middlesbrough. I've done Newport a few times now but it was my first up the...

The hit list for my little trip across the pond was pretty varied, and we managed to get a fair amount of stuff done. Steel mills to drains to skyscrapers to subway to parties on half sunk boats. All well and good, but the main event, in my mind, were New York's bridges. Our original plan also...

Visited with Gone After getting a call off Gone, saying he was coming down my way for a few days, it was up to me to pull an explore out the bag and these are pretty much right on my doorstep. Nothing epic but worth a look if you're about. I'd done the suspension bridge about a year ago...