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	Transporter bridge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Their use is to carry a moveable roadway across a navigable river slung from a span tall enough to allow traffic to pass on the river.
		The Newport transporter bridge was built in 1906 across the River Usk.
		Because the river banks are very low at the desired crossing point (a few miles south of the city centre) a bridge would needed a very long approach ramp and a ferry could not be used at low tide.
	www.1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/t/tr/transporter_bridge.html (108 words)

	Transporter Bridge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The lack of a road bridge at Runcorn had always been a problem even before the canal was built, the original crossing of the Mersey being by ferry at this point.
		The transporter provided an excellent solution but by the 1950's traffic had grown to such an extent that it was considered to be inadequate and a road bridge was proposed to replace it.
		Once the road bridge was opened in 1961 the old transporter bridge was dismantled.
	users.breathe.com /g8hxe/transporter_bridge.htm (158 words)

	Improved Float Bridge (Ribbon Bridge)
		The ribbon bridge is a modular, aluminum-alloy, and continuous floating bridge system consisting of interior and ramp bays that are transported, launched, and retrieved by a transporter/launcher vehicle.
		Bridge bays, which are carried in a folded position, automatically open upon entering the water to form a 22-foot section of bridge.
		Ribbon bridges and rafts provide the maneuver commander with a reliable and responsive means to cross wet gap obstacles from the march.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/systems/ground/rb.htm (947 words)

	Port Cities: - Bridges between Runcorn and Widnes
		The transporter bridge moved vehicles and people from one side of the river to the other by using a large transporter car which was pulled by cable.
		The bridge had earlier been tested for strength when seven horses and five wagons of the mineral silicate weighing 36 tons were placed on it.
		The ownership of the bridge was transferred to Widnes Corporation in 1911 and the bridge was temporarily closed for an upgrade before re-opening on 21 May 1913.
	www.mersey-gateway.org /server.php?show=ConNarrative.9&chapterId=36 (438 words)

	Transporter Bridge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		From the early part of the last century, until 1961, a transporter bridge carried people, and a very restricted number of vehicles it must be said, between Runcorn and Widnes, over the River Mersey and the Manchester Ship Canal.
		It was the longest span continually operating transporter bridge in the world.
		The transporter bridge was pulled down a year or so later and the only remaining visible signs are the two access roads on each side of the river.
	www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~jrossb/transporterbridge.html (296 words)

	Living History - North East England
		The Newport bridge was built in 1933, and officially opened in February 1934, by the Duke of York.
		It was the first vertical lift bridge to be built in this country, and the heaviest of its type in the world.
		The Middlesbrough Transporter Bridge is fully operational, and crosses the river every 15 minutes, for 18 hours a day.
	www.freewebs.com /deltadawn/bridges.htm (516 words)

	Stockton-on-Tees
		It is a fine example of a cable-stay bridge spanning both the River Tees and the adjoining main road to link the University of Durham Stockton campus on the right bank with the town centre on the left bank.
		The bridge was opened by the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, in whose constituency the bridge lies, in September, 2001.
		There appear to have been no more than 20 such bridges in the world at any time,generally at the lowest crossing point of a river, and the number of operational bridges today is probably no more than 10.
	www.lunemillenniumbridge.info /Stockton.html (489 words)

	BBC - England Webcams - Tees Transporter Bridge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Middlesbrough Transporter Bridge is the best known landmark in Teesside.
		Don't expect to drive across this bridge though - you are carried across the water in a cradle suspended beneath the main span of the bridge.
		The bridge is a bit of a film star having featured in films such as Billy Elliott and Auf Wiedersehn Pet.
	www.bbc.co.uk /england/webcams/scenic_views/tees_bridge_middlesborough_teeside_webcam.shtml (120 words)

	Transporter Bridges
		The Tower Bridge with its pair of bascules, the Forth Bridge with its mile-long roadway, and the high Menai Suspension Bridge, are all "bridges" but each differs from the other in almost every particular owing to the peculiarities of the local conditions.
		Widnes-Runcorn Transporter Bridge was opened in 1905 to replace the previous ferry and to supplement the toll footbridge that ran beside the railway bridge across the River Mersey.
		The Newport Transporter Bridge is a steel hybrid suspension/cable stayed bridge near the mouth of the River Usk.
	www.dalefield.com /nzfmm/magazine/Transporter_Bridges.html (2089 words)

	The Transporter Bridge At Newport, South Wales (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The bridge shown in these photographs is a solution to the problem of crossing a navigable river, in this case the estuary of the River Usk, where the land on both sides is low, without requiring a long elevated approach to the bridge.
		The highway carried by the bridge is the B4237, and the bridge is a few miles south of the centre of Newport.
		The bridge consists of a high suspension span supporting the movable carriage, which is shown at the eastern end of the bridge, near the elevated control cabin, and the ferry structure, which is suspended from the carriage by cables.
	www.du.edu /~jcalvert/tech/transport.htm (178 words)

	This is The North East \| CommuniGate \| THE TRANSPORTER BRIDGE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		As from August the 1st 2003 the Transporter Bridge becomes the responsibility of Middlesbrough Council.
		The Transporter Bridge is Middlesbrough's most visible link to its proud industrial heritage.The walkway across the top stands at 160 feet above the River Tees at high tide.
		The Transporter is the longest bridge of its type in the World and is one of three remaining in Britain.
	www.communigate.co.uk /ne/brookfieldward/page10.phtml (101 words)

	The building of the Transporter Bridge
		McLauchlan suggested a transporter bridge should be built, but three years passed before the Town Clerk presented a report which favoured such a move.
		The council agreed to pay Cleveland Bridge £200 to prepare a plan and specification which would be necessary for the council to seek parliamentary support for the project.
		On the other hand Ald Amos Hinton thought the bridge would prove to be a rapid and efficient method of crossing the river, and blamed the socialists on the council for the distrust in the scheme.
	www.nowandthenmag.co.uk /june2000/1.htm (735 words)

	Google Sightseeing » Post Archive » The Colgante Bridge
		This is the Colgante Transporter Bridge across the river Nervión in Portugalete, Spain.
		This extremely rare type of bridge (apparently there’s only 8 of them left in the world) is designed to carry a segment of roadway across a river, and you can see quite clearly in this photo why they came up with this design.
		This particular bridge was the first of its type ever built, way back in 1893…; well not this actual bridge, as unfortunately it was destroyed in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War (three days before it ended) but those crafty Spaniards had in fixed again by 1941.
	www.googlesightseeing.com /2005/08/10/the-colgante-bridge (395 words)

	Walk #235: Billingham to Redcar
		This bridge lifts by lowering two counterweights, which are suspended in the two towers at either end of the bridge.
		The second bridge is the transporter bridge, which at 850 feet long is the largest working bridge of it's kind in the world.
		Initially it is fairly good as it follows a bend in the river past the transporter bridge, a nightclub housed in a large ship and Middlesbrough football ground, but later on it gets sandwiched between a railway line and various steel and chemical plants.
	www.britishwalks.org /walks/2002/235.php (2110 words)

	The Widnes-Runcorn Transporter Bridge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Widnes-Runcorn Transporter Bridge was opened on 29 May 1905 to replace the previous ferry and to supplement the toll footbridge that ran beside the railway bridge across the River Mersey.
		On the Widnes-Runcorn bridge, the suspended platform was known as The Car, and this became a synecdoche for the entire bridge.
		The span of the bridge across the Mersey was 1000ft [305m].
	www.havercan.mcmail.com /widnes/transporter.html (446 words)

	Auf Wiedersehen Pet - Series Three Locations
		The bridge still operates daily, and is the only Transporter bridge in the country still providing regular service.
		Also if you look at the right leg of the bridge, the second gantry up was where the scene of the lads and the binoculars was filmed, although camera angling made this look as though it was a lot higher up.
		Also on the Middlesbrough side of the Bridge is the Captain Cook pub, where the lads met for Oz's wake, and then made their local during the job.
	www.aufpet.com /3locs.htm (837 words)

	New Mersey Crossing - Runcorn & Widnes
		Government statisticians at the Department of Transport prepare detailed guidance on traffic growth for up to 30 years into the future for all types of traffic based economic indicators and these are used for all road schemes, (basically, the forecasts assume that economic growth leads to higher traffic flows).
		For a new bridge, especially such a large bridge as this, the risk of providing insufficient capacity is too big to contemplate.
		This is a period which has seen increasing environmental awareness, changes in government transport policy, economic booms and recessions, wars in the Middle East and elsewhere and not least, the decline of major UK industries and the growth of a new age economy.
	www.merseycrossing.co.uk /html/traffgro.htm (757 words)

	icTeesside - Symbol of hope (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		While the bridge is getting a lick of paint, we look back over the past 92 years to find out more about the quirky history of the impressive structure.
		The next time the bridge is repainted is likely to be in 2010, the year before its centenary.
		He proposed that the cost of the bridge would be £31,162, which was deemed too expensive at that time and steam ferries, costing £6,050 each, were used instead.
	icteesside.icnetwork.co.uk /0100news/teespride/tm_objectid=13472258&method=full&siteid=50080&headline=symbol-of-hope-name_page.html (1645 words)

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		Invitations had been sent out from Bilbao to all the other seven existing transporter bridges inviting those responsible for their bridges to meet together in Madrid and then Bilbao to discuss the setting up of a new initiative as a ‘linking’ organisation.
		The bridge is actually called the Vizcaya Bridge in the area known as Portugalete and is some 7 miles downstream of the centre of Bilbao.
		The tourist potential of the Transporter Bridge is being developed in a fourth phase of work: redeveloping former office accommodation to provide a visitor interpretation facility, aimed at increasing the tourist potential of the bridge.
	www.niederelbe.de /FAEHRE/f-newport.htm (2189 words)

	Hand Oracle
		The bridge's history starts in 1917,when Karl Viennese an architect from Mannheim is being asked to plan the 325 meters long bridge, whose headroom over the normal water level of Rhine amounted to 14.80 meters.
		Today this bridge is considered as the architecturally most beautiful and best preserved Roman stone arch bridge and gives us a descriptive example of the amazing abilities of the Romans in the area of the bridge construction.
		The bridge of Alcántara defies nevertheless for nearly 2000 years the tides of the Rio Tajo and today more than ever by a substantial volume of traffic is taken up.
	handoracle.blogspot.com (2137 words)

	New Mersey Crossing - Runcorn & Widnes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Transporter Bridge was officially opened by Sir John Brunner.
		By the late 1940's the Transporter Bridge was beginning to show it's age and the increase in road traffic (2 million passengers, 150,000 private vehicles and 100,000 commercial vehicles per year by 1958) made the situation worse.
		In 1946 Ministry of Transport said a new bridge would be built when money became available, but it wasn't until 1961 that it became a reality.
	www.merseycrossing.co.uk /html/transpbr.htm (551 words)

	Newport, South Wales (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The first permanent crossing was a timber bridge, recorded between 1158 and 1187.
		It became obvious that a new bridge would have to be built.
		A conventional bridge and a lifting bridge were impractical because the surrounding area was flat and high-masted ships used the river.
	www.geocities.com /newport_wales/Bridge.htm (258 words)

	The SABRE Roads Website
		Maybe this is a transported bridge afterall, given that it appears to have moved from Middlesbrough to Chester
		Sent: 7/24/2004 9:56 PM Talking of transported bridges rather than transporter bridges the bailey bridge which takes the A686 over the River Eden at Langwathby was transported from Portinscale near Keswick as a temporary solution after the origional bridge washed away in the 1960s (not sure of exact year).
		I remember the guy from the bridge telling us about when it was being built and the few construction workers who had decided to kill themselves by jumping off the top.
	groups.msn.com /TheSABRERoadsWebsite/roadsnews.msnw?action=get_message&mview=0&ID_Message=39110&LastModified=4675483048144088486&all_topics=1 (991 words)

	Middlesbrough History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Associated with the making of steel on Teesside is the construction of bridges, one of the industries for which the area has achieved international recognition.
		The most notable Teesside Bridge is the Transporter Bridge, which was designed by the Cleveland Bridge and Engineering Company of Darlington and opened on 17th October 1911, by Prince Arthur of Connaught.
		A kind of a cross between a ferry and a bridge, vehicles are transported across the river by means of a moving car which is capable of carrying 600 persons or 9 vehicles across the Tees to Port Clarence in two and a half minutes.
	www.thenortheast.fsnet.co.uk /Middlesbrough.htm (3447 words)

	Port Cities: - Runcorn-Widnes transporter bridge gallery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Runcorn-Widnes transporter bridge was built over the River Mersey in 1905 and continued in use until 1961 when it was demolished.
		It was replaced by a road bridge between Runcorn and Widnes.
		A view of the Runcorn-Widnes road, railway and transporter bridges from the Runcorn side showing the 'turrets' of the railway bridge
	www.mersey-gateway.org /server.php?show=ConGallery.17 (146 words)

	BBC News \| ENGLAND \| Bridge not under threat, pet
		Middlesbrough Council has received calls from people worried that the town's famous Transporter Bridge is being pulled down - because of watching the BBC's Auf Wiedersehen Pet.
		Producers have used computer effects to show the bridge being torn down by the Geordie builders in the Sunday night comedy-drama.
		The bridge - built in 1911 - is only one of two still working in the UK.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/1985075.stm (455 words)

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		I told him that people on Teesside were not only proud of their Transporter Bridge but it was Teesside people who had built it.
		Cllr McPartland, who is a big fan of the Transporter Bridge and wants to see it develop as a visitor attraction in the future, added: "It is a link with the past but it also has a wonderful future.
		On l7th December, 1911, Prince Authur of Connaught inaugurated the Middlesbrough transporter bridge.
	www.niederelbe.de /FAEHRE/f-middlesbrough.htm (2760 words)

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