Bridges

I have always thought that the Brinnington railway bridge over the M60 motorway is a particularly fine structure. This Warren girder bridge is the largest single span structure of this type on British railways. Wikipedia says: The Warren type girder combines strength with economy of materials and can therefore be relatively light. Patented in 1848 by its designers James Warren and Willoughby Theobald Monzani, its structure consists of longitudinal members joined only by angled cross-members, forming alternately inverted equilateral triangle-shaped spaces along its length, ensuring that no individual strut, beam, or tie, is subject to bending or torsional straining forces, but only to tension or compression.

Road bridge over the River Goyt at New Mills, Derbyshire, just before it is joined by the River Sett in the gorge known as The Torrs.

Bridge at the entrance to the end basin of the Bugsworth Basins on the Peak Forest Canal in Derbyshire. Limestone was transferred to boats from the Peak Forest Tramway at this point.

Cherry Eye Bridge over the Caldon Canal between Consall and Froghall. The name is thought to derive from the red-rimmed eyes of the iron ore miners (or Raddlemen) as they crossed over on their way home from work.

A bridge on the Telford New Main Line of the Birmingham Canal Navigations, UK, with the Stewart Aqueduct behind, carrying the Old Main Line across.

The top lock at Smethwick on the Old Main Line of the Birmingham Canal Navigations. Keeper's/toll office on the right and the mosque on Smethwick High Street top left.

The blue bridge over the Dee at Aldford provides access to Eaton Hall, seat of the Duke of Westminster. It was designed by Telford and erected in 1824 by William Stuttle Junior.

The two bridges over the Manchester Ship canal and Mersey Estuary between Runcorn and Widnes. The previous transporter bridge stood slightly closer to the camera which was on the Old Quay swing bridge. Old Quay lock can be seen between the canal and theMersey.

The Chain Bridge is one of Budapest's most famous landmarks. This suspension bridge opened in 1849 crosses the river Danube between Pest and Buda. It was designed by William Tierney Clark and construction was supervised by Scottish Engineer Adam Clark.

SY class locomotive heading back to the Dongchang colliery from the exchange sidings at Jixi. Loaded trains tend to work across the bridge in the early morning and empties at night, so we were lucky to catch this light engine crossing on a bitterly cold afternoon.

The lifting bascule section of Ferrymountgarret bridge no longer operates so you need to be careful of headroom at high tide when passing through this section of the tidal River Barrow above New Ross. This bridge was opened with a Scherzer mechanism lifting span on November 7, 1929 and completed at a cost of £22,500. It is understood that it was open to pedestrian traffic from May 1929.

Iarnród Éireann. GM (London, Ontario) built loco No.211 crosses the River Barrow viaduct at Monasterevin with a train for Dublin.

The Iron Bridge in Brabyns Park, Marple dates from 1813 and was manufactured at the Salford ironworks of Bateman and Sherratt. It was constructed over the River Goyt for the owner of Brabyns Hall, Nathaniel Wright, a local coalmaster with interests in the Poynton Collieries. After many years of neglect, during which a Bailey Bridge was erected over the deck, a lottery grant has been made to allow restoration of this historic structure. Full details of the bridge and the campaign by local people for restoration, can be found here .

Rolling bascule bridge over dock channel at Birkenhead. This one is out of use but there are several more within the docks.

Known to all locals as 'the Blue Bridge", the Hartford bridge on the Northwich Bypass over the River Weaver is, in fact, two spans built side-by-side. The nearer one was erected in 1939 to replace a stone arch bridge, but the further span was delayed due to the outbreak of the war and was finally finished in the early 1950's I think.

The Albert Edward Bridge was erected in 1863 to the design of Sir John Fowler, engineer. The cast iron single span double track railway bridge carries the railway line from Shifnal to Ironbridge Generating Station over the River Severn. The lettering on the bridge includes reference to the Coalbrookdale Company as responsible for casting and erection.

The Albert Edward Bridge was erected in 1863 to the design of Sir John Fowler, engineer. The cast iron single span double track railway bridge carries the railway line from Shifnal to Ironbridge Generating Station over the River Severn. The segmental arch has a span of 201 ft. Plaques on the bridge commemorate the engineer and also Messrs Brassey and Field, Contractors, and that it was cast and erected by the Coalbrookdale Company.

Miss J Butler and Miss Hudson seen crossing the River Dane below Wincle on the local style of bridging provided on public rights of way. There were several of these structures across the river in this area and all are still public footpaths. However, the 'bridges' have long gone and walkers have to wade the river if they wish to proceed. Those with a keen eye can still detect some of the anchor points for the cables. What would the H&S types say about this today? ;-)