A Bridge Too Far...

[NewcastleFalcon]

If the water level gets to 8ft probably best to turn back

Helpful flood water level measurers
Falcon Original 25/03/2023

Regards Neil

[CitroJim]

That looks like an old railway line Neil...

I did like your 'modified' photo of the same scene in another thread

[NewcastleFalcon]

A nice pair.

Whiteadder and Black Adder Berwickshire Scotland

Falcon Original-Whiteadder

Falcon Original Blackadder

Neil

[myglaren]

That's another for your coincidences Neil. You will spot it soon I expect.

[NewcastleFalcon]

That's another for your coincidences Neil. You will spot it soon I expect.

I definitely didn't see your POTD before I posted up my Adders

Neil

[CitroJim]

Our Iron Bridge, today and yesterday, with the river in flood...

[CitroJim]

Saw this railway bridge this moring during my run. Never realised it was there, or indeed the railway, but for NR doing a huge vegetation clearance in readiness for more East West Rail works...

This railway runs tight up against the bottom end of Caldecotte Lake in south Milton Keynes and a sensitive part of it too... Previously, the vegetation totally hid it...

[NewcastleFalcon]

Flavour of today's Whatsthisthen? Yes, its a Dam, and a bridge


Burrator Dam
Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Neil

[CitroJim]

And a most gorgeous one too

[mickthemaverick]

Never has the thread title been more appropriate, this happened to me on my way to a pet food delivery today, resulting in a 3 mile diversion route to get to the other side!!

Own work

and the reason for it?

Spoiler: show

Own work

[CitroJim]

Poleaxed...

[NewcastleFalcon]

Now those familiar with railwaycodes.org (http://www.railwaycodes.org.uk/elrs/elr0.shtm) will easily translate the sign and be able to look up precisely where the footbridge is. ECM7 does translate to The East Coast Mainline and the 7 is the region it passes through.

The full Code on the sign is
ECM7 (ie Newcastle to Berwick upon Tweed)
81E (Asset Identifier)
23 Miles 62 Chains (Distance in Miles and Chains from the start of the ECM7 region ie Newcastle Upon Tyne)

NF original 12/04/2023

Neil

[myglaren]

Passed this on Saturday. Had I been driving I would have driven over it, something last done a couple of decades ago when the flyover was closed.

[mickthemaverick]

I think James could have got a job working on that bridge if this is anything to go by!!

[Hell Razor5543]

I think James could have got a job working on that bridge if this is anything to go by!!

But Mum would have been furious, as I would have to pinch her boat horn (which, previously, was a hunting horn).