Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)

[woollypigs]

Well Crinkly I think we need a trip to Paris, don't we?


http://www.lostateminor.com/2012/10/23/inflatable-trampoline-bridge-in-paris/

Kill two flies in one - bridges for you and bouncy'ness for me

[CrinklyLion]

A (fairly) strange man on the internet just invited me to Paris!   

That is somewhat splendid, isn't it?

[Cudzoziemiec]

Fairly strange or a fair stranger? Will the trip bridge some differences? And how are you going to pay for the tickets - will you need a bridging loan?

[David Martin]

Just discovered a box of slides - the last 35mm slide film I shot. Apologies for the dust. Fujichrome 50, emphasising why I switched to digital.


slides019 by davidmamartin, on Flickr


slides011 by davidmamartin, on Flickr

[billplumtree]

Connell Bridge


Scalpay Bridge from Harris


Innominate bridge.  S Uist, the A865, south of Tobha Mor.  Will that do?


The tiny, rickety and wholly unnecessary bridge across a small indentation in the ground at the Gatliff hostel on Berneray.  Cute though, eh?

[CrinklyLion]

You absolute, complete and total utter GIT.

Thank you 

[mcshroom]

Cockley Beck Bridge at the bottom of Hardknott Pass

[Kim]

I must have walked past (and indeed over) this one so many times.  Indeed, now Bournbrook Road has been culverted, I think it qualifies as our local bridge:



It's nothing special, but the Bourn Brook is looking particularly lovely at this time of year.

[Wombat]

Just discovered a box of slides - the last 35mm slide film I shot. Apologies for the dust. Fujichrome 50, emphasising why I switched to digital.


slides019 by davidmamartin, on Flickr


slides011 by davidmamartin, on Flickr

Is that the "silvery, silvery Tay", by any chance?

[Wombat]

Connell Bridge


Scalpay Bridge from Harris


Innominate bridge.  S Uist, the A865, south of Tobha Mor.  Will that do?


The tiny, rickety and wholly unnecessary bridge across a small indentation in the ground at the Gatliff hostel on Berneray.  Cute though, eh?

Ahem!  Connel Ferry bridge, if you don't mind...  'tis a personal favourite of mine.  I am intending to replicate it on my garden railway, its going to take a lot of laser cut steel to manage that 5 metres long...

[David Martin]

Just discovered a box of slides - the last 35mm slide film I shot. Apologies for the dust. Fujichrome 50, emphasising why I switched to digital.


slides019 by davidmamartin, on Flickr


slides011 by davidmamartin, on Flickr

Is that the "silvery, silvery Tay", by any chance?

The very same. What these photos demonstrate is my inability to focus properly on a Nikon F2 with a ground glass screen only. Using an old Nikkor 80-200 f4.5 pretty much wide open.

[Pingu]

Tay rail bridge:


IMG_1646 by The Pingus, on Flickr

[Pingu]

Tay road bridge, a bit wonky:


IMG_1648 by The Pingus, on Flickr

[Pingu]

Fairly dull road bridge over the Tay at Perth:


IMG_1651 by The Pingus, on Flickr

[Pingu]

Rail bridge over the Tay at Perth:


IMG_1652 by The Pingus, on Flickr

[Pingu]

IMG_1655 by The Pingus, on Flickr

[mcshroom]

Hmm where's that then Pingu?

Weatherall Viaduct today: -







and also the station at the top: -

[Deano]

Very nice, Mcshroom, but can you walk across it?

[mcshroom]

Very nice, Mcshroom, but can you walk across it?

Yes you can. That white rail and black overhang on the second picture shows where the footbridge has been added to the rail viaduct. I'm not sure about using it for a group ride though as the route down to it (and the station) is a narrow gravel path with fencing on either side.

[Deano]

Longtown Bridge, which I've crossed many times, but never photographed before:



Solport Bridge, over Rae Burn (featuring a remarkably gravelly descent at either side)



Two of Blacklyne Bridge, one from upstream and one from downstream, as you can see the different types of stone used (or, possibly, the differing effects of weather):




A footbridge over Malls Burn:




And the wonderfully named Kingbridge Ford Bridge (it's the bridge over King Water, and presumably replaced a ford at some point in its history):



Cumbria has good bridges. For a touch of non-Cumbrian variety, here are the old and new bridges over the Tyne at Haydon Bridge:

[Peter]

Great stuff, everyone.  Dean, it's clear to to see from your last couple of pictures how improvement in materials has allowed utility to push beauty out of the window!

[Deano]

It ain't necessarily so - but the new bridge there is a bit hideous, especially compared to the old one.

[Pingu]

A wee one in Pennan:


IMG_1669 by The Pingus, on Flickr

[Deano]

I've just been trying to identify some Austrian bridge photos, and I stumbled across this project, a portrait of four (count 'em) bridges over the Danube at Linz in sound and video:

http://floriantuercke.net/bridges.html

I feel it's a shame he didn't include the old railway bridge, which I thought had the most character, although they all have interesting stories.


Steyregger Brücke and old railway bridge, Linz by dean.clementson, on Flickr

[clarion]

One from earlier in the year.  Ashtead Common.  Butterfly & Nye (not visible in shot)