Author Topic: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!) (Read 416706 times)

Pingu · « **Reply #2325 on:** 27 March, 2021, 11:21:15 pm »

Grandholm Bridge

IMG_7984_01 by The Pingus, on Flickr

salar55 · « **Reply #2326 on:** 28 March, 2021, 10:38:18 am »

Need wider tyres stuck in the gap.

salar55 · « **Reply #2327 on:** 29 March, 2021, 11:25:44 am »

Railway bridge by a tower designer.

Wombat · « **Reply #2328 on:** 04 April, 2021, 02:17:13 pm »

Ah, Viaduc du Garabit, I believe. A wondrous thing. I've seen a few other Eiffel creations in France, whilst visiting my friends in the Auvergne region.

salar55 · « **Reply #2329 on:** 15 April, 2021, 10:02:35 am »

Another in the Massif

Davef · « **Reply #2330 on:** 15 April, 2021, 10:35:14 am »

Quote from: salar55 on 15 April, 2021, 10:02:35 am

Another in the Massif

Is that millau?

salar55 · « **Reply #2331 on:** 15 April, 2021, 04:53:38 pm »

Yes It has a connection with the bridge above, Eiffel construction were part of the Eiffage group. They were responsible for the steel roadway.

Pingu · « **Reply #2332 on:** 15 April, 2021, 11:41:48 pm »

IMG_8024_01 by The Pingus, on Flickr

Salvatore · « **Reply #2333 on:** 16 April, 2021, 09:57:19 am »

Barley Mow Bridge, Basingstoke Canal

salar55 · « **Reply #2334 on:** 18 April, 2021, 11:13:30 pm »

Pont Valentre Cahors

salar55 · « **Reply #2335 on:** 21 April, 2021, 11:05:14 pm »

An old packhorse bridge.

phil653 · « **Reply #2336 on:** 30 April, 2021, 07:50:51 am »

This is very cool. No news on whether you'll be allowed to cycle across it. Goes straight to the top of my 'places I want to visit once they reopen the border' list.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2021/apr/30/worlds-longest-pedestrian-suspension-bridge-arouca-516-opens-in-portugal-video

Salvatore · « **Reply #2337 on:** 12 May, 2021, 06:39:37 pm »

Poulter's Bridge, Basingstoke Canal. Built (within a year or two) at the same time my great great great grandfather signed up as a marine in Nelson's navy in order to give Bonaparte a bloody nose.

andrewc · « **Reply #2338 on:** 25 May, 2021, 12:37:49 pm »

I suppose you could class this as a bridge, but you won't be riding a bike over it!. https://newatlas.com/architecture/sky-pool-london/

https://twitter.com/scalzi/status/1396995350024626178?s=20

The French Tandem · « **Reply #2339 on:** 25 May, 2021, 12:46:12 pm »

Quote from: andrewc on 25 May, 2021, 12:37:49 pm

I suppose you could class this as a bridge, but you won't be riding a bike over it!. https://newatlas.com/architecture/sky-pool-london/

Well, if you really wanna ride a bike over that bridge:

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Salvatore · « **Reply #2340 on:** 29 May, 2021, 07:42:11 pm »

Quote from: Salvatore on 29 August, 2016, 09:22:19 am

Bergsøysundbrua:

Today a structural engineering student at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology at Trondheim asked if he could use this on the cover of his masters thesis.

I said yes.

mzjo · « **Reply #2341 on:** 30 June, 2021, 08:48:39 pm »

La Rochelle-Ile de Ré toll bridge. I once walked across it and back with Cat while waiting for her plane home from La Rochelle, just to dip our toes on the island and say we'd done it!

I am sure that this bridge must have been posted somewhere already, not sure where.

mzjo · « **Reply #2342 on:** 30 June, 2021, 08:59:07 pm »

Canal aquaduct at Briare. I can't believe that someone hasn't already posted it but I haven't found it!

IanDG · « **Reply #2343 on:** 02 July, 2021, 09:13:50 pm »

safe_image (2) by ian, on Flickr

mzjo · « **Reply #2344 on:** 13 July, 2021, 08:34:41 pm »

This one you won't see in the flesh; it only lasted the week-end. From Primary PGCE, St Pauls College, Cheltenham 1986 (which I failed

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mzjo · « **Reply #2345 on:** 13 July, 2021, 08:41:41 pm »

The Chain Bridge on the river Dee, leading over the Chain Bridge rapids to the Chain Bridge Hotel. You had to be a guest of the hotel or have special permission to use it. Just upstream is the Horseshoe falls. IIRC it was used by the timers at the start of whitewater canoe and kayak races (bitd, before someone discovered the tap for turning on the Tryweryn)

mzjo · « **Reply #2346 on:** 13 July, 2021, 09:00:19 pm »

Three bridges at the entrance to Conway. I think the road bridge must be modern by my standards. I am sure when I was in school at Penmaenmawr in the 60's the road bridge was a suspension bridge. In my mind it was the one currently used by pedestrians, single file and I think controlled by lights but I was quite young and I might have got it all wrong. I can't believe that these haven't already been posted but I haven't found them

Another two from the other side of the castle.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2347 on:** 14 July, 2021, 12:37:29 am »

Wikinaccurate says the suspension bridge was closed to vehicular traffic when the new one opened in December 1958.

mzjo · « **Reply #2348 on:** 14 July, 2021, 06:16:01 pm »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 14 July, 2021, 12:37:29 am

Wikinaccurate says the suspension bridge was closed to vehicular traffic when the new one opened in December 1958.

In which case it's just the twisted memories of an 8yr old boy far from home - but I certainly don't remember the bridge being like that! Perhaps it was another bridge further along the coast that I'm thinking of. My headmaster at the time had an old Vauxhall (Cresta, I think), it undoubtedly played tricks with the mind

perpetual dan · « **Reply #2349 on:** 19 July, 2021, 09:29:12 am »

Pensford viaduct.

Author Topic: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!) (Read 416706 times)

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