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Pingu

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Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #475 on: 29 December, 2011, 05:35:04 pm »
The bridge over the River Y(than):


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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #476 on: 30 December, 2011, 02:26:36 am »
Oy oy oy... I've just discovered a whole website devoted to bridges!

Unfortunately for yous it's in Polish  :-\ but there are lots of photos - most of them destroyed at least 66 years ago... Here's one over the Dniestr to the Romanian border from the interwar years, complete with steam train.

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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #477 on: 30 December, 2011, 02:52:23 am »
Here's something a bit different - it's the same bridge as above, but being blessed! (after rebuilding following destruction in the aftermath of WWI).

Can't post an image, only a link, sorry. Aagh, even the link doesn't work well - it's the 6th down, number 3255.
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Pingu

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Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #478 on: 30 December, 2011, 01:42:49 pm »
You mean this:



;)

David Martin

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Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #479 on: 30 December, 2011, 07:03:21 pm »
Some bridges from today's perambulation..


Untitled by davidmamartin, on Flickr

Untitled by davidmamartin, on Flickr

Untitled by davidmamartin, on Flickr
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #480 on: 30 December, 2011, 10:17:36 pm »
You mean this:



;)
Clever clogs! How did you do that? I couldn't get it to give me an image address at all.
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Pingu

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jogler

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Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #482 on: 31 December, 2011, 04:56:08 pm »
that's educational is a fascinating manner :thumbsup:

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #483 on: 31 December, 2011, 09:48:54 pm »
That's interesting. But so was the original bridge, being a cylinder rather than an arch, more like a tunnel than a bridge in shape. I guess not many cows walk through it now.
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clarion

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Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #484 on: 01 January, 2012, 10:28:59 pm »
We spotted this yesterday, but didn't have the time to get a photo, so we stopped by this morning for you.  It's a footbridge over the railway from West Croydon through to Waddon, quite near Waddon station, as it happens.  It's a bit hard to photograph because of fences, trees and the like, and the third photo is a bit askew because I was standing on the edge of a wall in a private car park, leaning round the end of a high wall, and not really able to see the screen to compose.  But you get the idea.







And it had bollards and railings which were a bit of a mish-mash, but this one was pretty good, we thought:
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #485 on: 01 January, 2012, 10:54:51 pm »
That's like a brick version of something that would be made in iron! Like an old material imitating a new one.
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clarion

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Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #486 on: 01 January, 2012, 10:59:31 pm »
Yes.  I hadn't thought of it like that, but you make an interesting point.
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #487 on: 01 January, 2012, 11:07:08 pm »
An interesting point already? Well, that's my year's quota gone!
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clarion

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Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #488 on: 05 January, 2012, 09:30:13 pm »
This is one we passed in the gloom on the WARTY, but fortunately, we'd passed it last time in the light.

I don't know where it is, really, but I am sure Mr Bagger can enlighten us.

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clarion

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Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #489 on: 05 January, 2012, 09:33:19 pm »
On a disused railway turned into a cycle path near the Essex/Suffolk border





Sorry about the blue cast on that one - it was drizzling.
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clarion

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Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #490 on: 05 January, 2012, 09:36:59 pm »
A weak bridge in a state of disrepair, blocked by concrete.  This is now the access to the Start of the Skog



Not to cyclists it isn't! :thumbsup:

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clarion

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Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #491 on: 05 January, 2012, 10:30:39 pm »


This is part of John Smeaton's viaduct for the A616 Great North Road across the Trent and the marshes at Newark.  The photo is taken from the campsite we stayed at by Smeaton's Lakes - popular among anglers, I am given to understand.
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Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #492 on: 05 January, 2012, 11:01:22 pm »
This is part of John Smeaton's viaduct for the A616 Great North Road across the Trent and the marshes at Newark.  The photo is taken from the campsite we stayed at by Smeaton's Lakes - popular among anglers, I am given to understand.

A-haa!
We went past that on our way to York for the AUK AGM drink-a-thon. I haven't really mastered photography from the stoker seat yet, so I didn't get to snap it.

It was a lot nicer weather when you were there!

clarion

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Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #493 on: 05 January, 2012, 11:04:37 pm »
We were there in August.  It was a tad drizzly, but mostly fine.

It's a right long thing.  Quite a feat of engineering.
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Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #494 on: 05 January, 2012, 11:19:43 pm »
This is one we passed in the gloom on the WARTY, but fortunately, we'd passed it last time in the light.

I don't know where it is, really, but I am sure Mr Bagger can enlighten us.


Anytime I look at that I think of the thousands of man-hours of labour that must have gone into laying those bricks, and the wonderful basic skill of mixing a mortar and laying bricks with the precision that has lasted so many decades.
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Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #495 on: 06 January, 2012, 05:59:35 pm »
Some bridges snapped on a walk along the banks of the Wharfe from Burnall to Grassington (and back) on a dull day between Xmas and New Year.

Burnsall


About halfway along


Near Grassington


and the same one looking downstream


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et avec John, excellent lecteur de road-book, on s'en est sortis sans erreur

clarion

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Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #496 on: 06 January, 2012, 06:07:43 pm »
Beautiful :'(
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David Martin

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Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #497 on: 06 January, 2012, 07:45:07 pm »
Bridge for Kim?


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clarion

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Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #498 on: 06 January, 2012, 07:47:03 pm »
:facepalm:
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Kim

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Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #499 on: 06 January, 2012, 09:23:03 pm »
I'm fairly sure I already posted one of those.

Anyone got a Wheatstone?  :)