The Tees Transporter Bridge, Teeside, Northern England
The bridge, opened in 1911, crosses the River Tees between the towns of Port Clarence and Middlehaven. The bridge carries a travelling ‘car’, or 'gondola’, suspended below the fixed structure, across the river in 90 seconds. The gondola can carry 200 people, nine cars, or six cars and one minibus. The bridge has not been operational since 2019 and it is not expected to return to operation for a number of years.
The bridge, opened in 1911, crosses the River Tees between the towns of Port Clarence and Middlehaven. The bridge carries a travelling ‘car’, or 'gondola’, suspended below the fixed structure, across the river in 90 seconds. The gondola can carry 200 people, nine cars, or six cars and one minibus. The bridge has not been operational since 2019 and it is not expected to return to operation for a number of years.
Good job England. Way to maintain your infrastructure.
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ReplyDeleteThere wasanother between Runcorn and Widnes: it wasn't so lucky.
ReplyDeletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widnes%E2%80%93Runcorn_Transporter_Bridge
seems like the long way to get around the horn...
ReplyDeleteLook it up on youtube. Some interesting videos :)
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Wonder if the yellow structures on the car are flotation pods?
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DeleteI saw it on one of the engineering shows on Amazon Prime. The bridge had to be high enough that tall ships could pass underneath but raising the road way would have been prohibitively expensive.
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Got to feed and house those illegal aliens. Far more important than infrastructure for the plebes.
ReplyDeleteAs a young lad I used the same bridge a few times each week going from Stockton on Tees to Middlesbrough. The yellow ’pods’ someone referred to are shelters for foot passengers. That same bridge saw a flotilla of various WW2 landing craft built and floated out across the steel river (river Tees) down through the channel for use on D Day. The iron foundries and steel mills provided from the area was used to build Sydney Harbour Bridge. As well as major bridges across the U.S.
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