The UK's three transporter bridges
A transporter bridge, also known as a ferry bridge or aerial transfer bridge, is a type of movable bridge that carries a segment of roadway across a river. The gondola is slung from a tall span by wires or a metal frame. The design has been used to cross navigable rivers or other bodies of water, where there is a requirement for ship traffic to be able to pass. This has been a rare type of bridge, with fewer than two dozen built. There are just twelve that continue to be used today, including one converted into a lift bridge and one designed as, but not yet operating as, a transporter bridge. (Wikipedia)
I'd been aware of these for some time but just never got round to them, they're scattered about middle England and i rarely leave London, especially not to frequent places such as Warrington, Middlesbrough and Newport. They're all beyond easy to get up, that it barely seems like doing an umbex. I sometimes find it harder getting into my flat. All three bridges have weird little stories attached to them, some with sleeping in a school gym on broken glass covered crash mats, some with sleeping in a Mcdondalds at 5am googling how to get anti-climb paint off clothes, some with banging out Taylor Swift in an Indian themed student bar, some with police and two guys in balaclava's on a stolen digger at 3am. Those are for another time. Warrington and Middlesbrough were done in 2015 and by the start of 2016 it was bugging me that i hadn't done all 3, so here they are.
Warrington
(Fuck) Middlesbrough
Newport
Peace and fucking, believe
A transporter bridge, also known as a ferry bridge or aerial transfer bridge, is a type of movable bridge that carries a segment of roadway across a river. The gondola is slung from a tall span by wires or a metal frame. The design has been used to cross navigable rivers or other bodies of water, where there is a requirement for ship traffic to be able to pass. This has been a rare type of bridge, with fewer than two dozen built. There are just twelve that continue to be used today, including one converted into a lift bridge and one designed as, but not yet operating as, a transporter bridge. (Wikipedia)
I'd been aware of these for some time but just never got round to them, they're scattered about middle England and i rarely leave London, especially not to frequent places such as Warrington, Middlesbrough and Newport. They're all beyond easy to get up, that it barely seems like doing an umbex. I sometimes find it harder getting into my flat. All three bridges have weird little stories attached to them, some with sleeping in a school gym on broken glass covered crash mats, some with sleeping in a Mcdondalds at 5am googling how to get anti-climb paint off clothes, some with banging out Taylor Swift in an Indian themed student bar, some with police and two guys in balaclava's on a stolen digger at 3am. Those are for another time. Warrington and Middlesbrough were done in 2015 and by the start of 2016 it was bugging me that i hadn't done all 3, so here they are.
Warrington
(Fuck) Middlesbrough
Newport
Peace and fucking, believe
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