The Transporter Bridge

newyddion said:
and here's what you could have won..
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An artist impression of a Middlesbrough High Level Bridge Scheme from 1890.

If built the Tees Transporter Bridge would never have existed!
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Mind you that doesn’t look too shabby either.
 
Wiseman_Vaughn said:
This looks great but I'm glad we got the Transporter! Here's the opening:

Tranny opening
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These designs would not actually have worked. The Transporter Bridge is 160 ft tall and yet still a sailing ship lost the top of its mast attempting to sail beneath. That is the height needed for clearance of some vessels in the early 20th century. So that suspension bridge would have had to be 160 ft above the river, can you imagine how long the approach ramps would have needed to be on either side of it. They would have had to knock down half the town.
Transporter Bridge was a flying ferry replacing an existing overloaded ferry. Cutting edge technology. A wonder of the late Victorian and Edwardian age. No wonder it is our iconic landmark and represents home to so many Teessiders.
 
As you get older you become more emotional. The annual day trip to Seaton with my mam dad and sister from Berwick Hills on the purple buses was our big day out

A few years ago I went to the bottom of the bridge when it was lit up.

The tears were down my face, my beautiful wife had to drive home, I couldn't .

Good grief it's happened again.
 
rob_fmttm said:
These designs would not actually have worked. The Transporter Bridge is 160 ft tall and yet still a sailing ship lost the top of its mast attempting to sail beneath. That is the height needed for clearance of some vessels in the early 20th century. So that suspension bridge would have had to be 160 ft above the river, can you imagine how long the approach ramps would have needed to be on either side of it. They would have had to knock down half the town.
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I wish they'd shown similar foresight with the A66
 
rob_fmttm said:
These designs would not actually have worked. The Transporter Bridge is 160 ft tall and yet still a sailing ship lost the top of its mast attempting to sail beneath. That is the height needed for clearance of some vessels in the early 20th century. So that suspension bridge would have had to be 160 ft above the river, can you imagine how long the approach ramps would have needed to be on either side of it. They would have had to knock down half the town.
Transporter Bridge was a flying ferry replacing an existing overloaded ferry. Cutting edge technology. A wonder of the late Victorian and Edwardian age. No wonder it is our iconic landmark and represents home to so many Teessiders.
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It would have been very expensive. There were folks at the time that opposed us having a bridge at all. Preferring us to keep the ferry service!
 
newyddion said:
I’ve filled in the form! Let’s paint the town RED!!
bridge, busses,the stadium.. let’s bring the K6 telephone boxes back and put urinals in them!
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Blue was the town colour, old buses etc- even Victorian Boro shirts were once blue and white.
No ferry disaster pre Transporter - but that ferry was often massively overloaded.
It took until the mid 1930s to get permission and funding to replace Newport ferry with the lifting bridge at Newport. There was a lot of opposition, especially from those using the river for shipping.
 
fmttmadmin said:
Blue was the town colour, old buses etc- even Victorian Boro shirts were once blue and white.
No ferry disaster pre Transporter - but that ferry was often massively overloaded.
It took until the mid 1930s to get permission and funding to replace Newport ferry with the lifting bridge at Newport. There was a lot of opposition, especially from those using the river for shipping.
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I'm not sure where I got the Ferry accident from - sorry about that.
 
fmttmadmin said:
Blue was the town colour, old buses etc- even Victorian Boro shirts were once blue and white.
No ferry disaster pre Transporter - but that ferry was often massively overloaded.
It took until the mid 1930s to get permission and funding to replace Newport ferry with the lifting bridge at Newport. There was a lot of opposition, especially from those using the river for shipping.
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Transporter Bridge 1911 to 1961 -RED
 
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