Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)

[Wowbagger]

The Grauniad never had an original thought. They clearly come to YACF for their ideas.

http://www.theguardian.com/community/ng-interactive/2016/jan/06/many-rivers-to-cross-readers-share-photos-of-bridges-around-the-world

[andrew_s]

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Farndon Bridge or Holt Bridge, depending on which you prefer, over the Dee on New Years Day

Going to the image URL gets me a "sign in with your Google account" page, which isn't any good between img tags

[Si S]

Back 2 minutes and buggers up the best thread on the internet, sounds about right 

I used to be able to do this.

Edit: I think I fixed the original. Wasn't worth it really, will try and do better next time

[Mr Larrington]

Back 2 minutes and buggers up the best thread on the internet, sounds about right 

I used to be able to do this.

Edit: I think I fixed the original. Wasn't worth it really, will try and do better next time

Still getting the grey "No Entry" sign here chiz.

[Si S]

<bangs head on desk>
<creates flickr account>
<modify's original post>
<goes for a cry and a lie down in a dark room>

Please let it be fixed

[Cudzoziemiec]

Farndon Bridge or Holt Bridge, depending on which you prefer, over the Dee on New Years Day

Holt bridge 2 by Si S, on Flickr

This one? It's showing fine for me. In the post, no facebook or flickr required, and was there the day before yesterday too.

[Si S]

 Cheers cudzo, it was a strange one, it was only showing when I was logged into chrome, if I logged out and used another browser it disappeared 

[phil653]

Roman bridge near Jerez de los Caballeros, Extremadura. Still open to all traffic and no weight limit posted.



Also Roman, close to the other one, but up a dirt lane and little used.



Puente Mayorga, Cádiz, a km or two inland from Gibraltar.  The medieval bridge was augmented by a flat reinforced concrete job alongside a decade or four ago. In a nice ironic twist, the old bridge is still open to traffic, controlled by traffic-lights, while the younger sibling is now limited to pedestrians and bikes.



This one leads to the beach. Ahead the view is across the Bahia de Algeciras, but right behind is the refinery that General Franco allegedly put there so the smell and pollution would blow across Gibraltar.



Compare and contrast. Looking seaward and looking inland from the same spot. (Please excuse lack of bridginess)






A mile or two later came close to this over the Guadarranque. It carries pipes between the oil refinery and a chemical works. It's not open for the public to cross.



Asymetric cable stayed foortbridge, Fuengirola



Slightly bizarre footbridge upstream



But it's closed, gates welded shut



Three for the price of one: Puentes Puerta Palma, Universidad and Real over the Guadiana



A couple of off-the-beaten-trackers, somewhere in hidden SW Spain

[fuzzy]

The refinery you speak of, if it is the one right on the bay, adjacent to La Linea, was the scene of an incident on 26th May 1985 which scared the shit out of me for a second or so.

A Japanese tanker was alongside and offloading naptha. Something caused an onboard explosion that blew the shipinto two pieces at destroyed an adjacent moored tanker. At the time I was part of the resident batallion doing a 2 year tour and was at home doing some hoovering. We lived in a portacabin at thetime and as I hovered the lounge floor, the place started to vibrate and I saw a line of all I can describe it as is 'shimmer'advance the length of both external walls follwed by a fucking huge BOOM! My initial thoughts were an air strike by the spanish but as I ran outside I saw the fireball and smoke plume from the dead ship.

Archived news report

YouTube of news footage shot at the scene after the event by Spanish media

Website entry relating to the salvage of Petragen One including some images

[woollypigs]

Didn't know that one of the best cartoons around was a location



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osvaldo_Cavandoli

[phil653]

Yup, that's the place. A few hundred metres beyond where I took those two pics, the public road I was on actually goes through the refinery complex, between the massive holding tanks and the loading wharf (or rather unloading I suppose). It's a kind of wire fence and barbed wire tunnel for about 400m, before you reach the ruins of Carteya, thought by some to be Tarshish, the then ends of the earth that Jonah was a-running away to before the big fish got 'im.

The La Linea in question may indeed be cartoonish, but in this case is short for La Linea de la Concepción, an ugly little place if ever there was. Its adjoining neighbours, Campamento and Puente Mayorga, are infamously smelly.

The Straights of Gibraltar act as funnel, with only two wind directions: Poniente i.e. a westerly in off the nearby Atlantic, or Levante an easterly blowing out of the Med. And boy can they blow!  Not for nothing are the hills thereabouts festooned with windfarms.

[Deano]

A couple from Darlo - firstly, Genesis. The 1825 railway bridge over the Skerne:



And a new footbridge over the Skerne. Labrador for scale:

[Russell]

Viaduc de la Scie just outside Dieppe.  If I was going to stereotype I could say in typical French fashion the viaduc was completed around the middle of last year but the road that it is due to carry was not yet started as of November 2015.




[Wiki images]

There are some very arty videos of its construction on vimeo


      
      
      

[Pingu]

Val d'Isere bridge


IMG_6275_01 by The Pingus, on Flickr

[Deano]

Bellasis Bridge, over the Blyth just north of Newcastle:

[Peter]

Some lovely stuff, as ever, thank you people.

Dean I was wondering about the small arch.  Is there a tiny stream there or some knd of depression, or is it just a good ruse to save stone and keep a manageable gradient?  Don't expect you to have the answer, just curious!

[Deano]

Flood relief, I think.

[Peter]

Ah, of course!

[billplumtree]

Askøy Bridge, Bergen.  Call me a completionist but there were some I missed last time round.

[Ruthie]

You're a completionist.

[billplumtree]

I know, I know.


Måløy Bridge this morning

[Cudzoziemiec]

Does "this morning" mean you're back there again, or just that it was this morning when you took the photo or is it just the rhetorical good morning that gets added to photos of slebs?

[billplumtree]

I'm back, to do another length-of-Norway-and-back trip with Hurtigruten.  I enjoyed Storm Jonas so much in the UK that I decided to overtake it (him?) on a plane and repeat the experience in Norway.  Onna boat on the sea, to get the most out of it 

[billplumtree]

Herøy bridge, Torvik

[billplumtree]

Tromsø Bridge.  We've had it before, but not in daylight...


Tromsø Bridge I by billplumtree, on Flickr


Tromsø Bridge II by billplumtree, on Flickr