A Bridge Too Far...

[CitroJim]

A couple of railway viaducts in Newquay seen during the South Coast Saunter

and...

[NewcastleFalcon]

A couple of railway viaducts in Newquay seen during the South Coast Saunter

Looking at the intended route and a reference to running across the bridge as part of Mondays activities, I was expecting some shots of one of the most iconic bridges in the country from your Monday activity Jim! Surely you didn't by pass IKB's finest (although the final design was by the largely forgotten WHB and JH (not a lot of people know that!). Crikey you could even have had a night-time excursion to get some atmospheric night-time photo's.

Neil

[CitroJim]

A couple of railway viaducts in Newquay seen during the South Coast Saunter

Looking at the intended route and a reference to running across the bridge as part of Mondays activities, I was expecting some shots of one of the most iconic bridges in the country from your Monday activity Jim! Surely you didn't by pass IKB's finest (although the final design was by the largely forgotten WHB and JH (not a lot of people know that!). Crikey you could even have had a night-time excursion to get some atmospheric night-time photo's.

Neil

Keeping that for next time Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

Have you made a pilgrimage to this one, not IKB but Thomas Telford's Finest.

Evening visits to such things add more drama than daytime visits

Falcon pilgrimage May 2016

Neil

[CitroJim]

Have you made a pilgrimage to this one, not IKB but Thomas Telford's Finest.

I have Neil, and the other one just up the strait

My Son-in-Law went to Uni in Bangor so I got to enjoy trips across it several times... Paul (Citroenxm) first introduced me to it...

You're right that it's Telford's finest

[NewcastleFalcon]

Bridges at Berwick

Royal Border Bridge through the arches of the road bridges

Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

Well its sort of a bridge, it's a gateway through Berwick's Elizabethan walls.

Neil

[CitroJim]

That's a very stunning photo Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

A typical footbridge on the Newcastle-Carlisle line

Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

One over the River South Tyne

Foot Cycle and horse bridge
behind the station

Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

Designed by John Rennie, and also the inspiration for his design for Waterloo Bridge London.

Bridge over the Tweed at Kelso

Shadow art

Neil

[myglaren]

Just posted. Says it is the only one left but little does he know that there is one in Newcastle. Never seen it open but crossed it many a time.

The Whitby one was always open at the most inopportune times. I remember it failing while open and the army came in and fitted a pontoon bridge, which was fun, except for traffic that had to divert through Ruswarp, added about five miles to the journey.

[CitroJim]

No, he's well wrong... Still a fair number scattered around the country but not all may be in working order...

Network Rail have recently completed a big refurbishment of the Barmouth Bridge in Wales and have retained its opening section...

[mickthemaverick]

Indeed there are Jim, in fact to prove the point I have just had a drive out to Hemel where our local one has been operating all my life!! :

MTMO Our Swingbridge

MTMO and again

MTMO and again!

From the other side showing the pub

MTMO which is very cosy inside

MTMO so I had to check out the beer!! Yum!!

MTMO - woe betide anyone who doesn't close it!!

[CitroJim]

Nice one Mick