transporter bridge

Climbed this one earlier this year, The Warrington Transporter Bridge is the only rail transporter bridge left standing in the world today. The Warrington Transporter Bridge (also known as Bank Quay Transporter Bridge or Crosfield's Transporter Bridge) across the River Mersey is a structural...

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...

Newport Transporter Bridge The Newport Transporter Bridge is the UK's tallest and oldest transporter bridge still standing, opening in September 1906 (Tees and Mersey 1911 & 1916) at 54m above high tide level (Tees and Mersey 49m & 27m) It's my favourite of the three left in the UK, too. I've...

One of 3 Transporter bridges in the UK. The Tees Transporter Bridge has an overall length (including cantilevers) of 851 feet (259 m), leaving a span between the centres of the towers of 590 feet (180 m), the beam of the bridge being carried at a height of 160 feet (49 m) above the road. The...

Little visit to the transporter bridge while in the area, was on the wrong side of the bridge looking for a way up until we realised after 30 mins or so... anyways the bridge is fairly stable below but at the top is pretty much a death trap, sections of the bridges walk way have fallen...

The History The idea of a transporter bridge across the River Tees was first mooted in 1872 when Charles Smith, Manager of the Hartlepool Iron Works, submitted a scheme to Middlesbrough Corporation. However the scheme was not pursued and it would not be until the new century that the idea of a...

History The Newport Transporter Bridge is one of six remaining fully-functioning transporter bridges left in the world; although eight still exist altogether. Originally, twenty were constructed, but many have since been closed and scrapped owing to declining ship-building industries across the...

Maybe next time... So having come out with not really much of a plan other than to look at a derpy ship and a derpy building in Middlesbrough, we were a tad disappointed when we showed up to deceptively easy access with a rather unfriendly security guard on the other side. Stealth failure in...

History~ Rochefort-Martrou Transporter Bridge was between 1898 and 1900. It crosses the Charente River and has a maximum height of 66.5metres (218ft) and a total length of 175.5metres (576ft). It was abandoned in 1967 in favour of a vertical lift bridge, which was demolished in 1991 a few...

Bit of History~ Built in 1893 it was designed by Alberto Palacio, one of Gustave Eiffel's disciples. It's the only site in Spain to have UNESCO status. It is considered to be one of the most outstanding constructions of the European Industrial Revolution and one of the greatest engineering...

Always had a fascination with this particular bridge, so have too get this fascinating structure done. Notice the bridge was in darkness, wasnt gonna use torch - spotlight either. Maybe the contractors had left the gate unlocked, they hadnt :mad so had too use certain techniches. Had too be...

NEWPORT TRANSPORTER BRIDGE Visited with WhoDaresWins, Seffy, END-PROC and Grit, on a very wet evening, whilst anticipating the onslaught of the storm they named St Jude. However, the promised gales had not arrived and after an interesting ascent to the base of the stair tower, we were heading...

Visited with Wellingtonian, End-proc, Grit and Seffy. Big thanks to Wellingtonian on this one. We had checked this out previously with the intention of going up but it turned out we needed a little creativity so arranged a re-visit and up we went. We probably hadn't picked the best time to...

Newport Transporter Bridge Now with added lens mist and typical Welsh rain A storm was brewing... In fact apparently the worst storm that the SW has seen for a long time. So, with this knowledge, we decided it would be a good idea to go and climb a bridge :D Having already been here, and...

Warrington Transporter Bridge, May 2013 Whilst in the area I thought it rude not to give this little beut a go. Being quite local to Middlesbrough, I managed to get that one ticked off many moons ago and have naggingly wanted the other two since. So I grabbed the co-ordinates, chucked...