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Britannia bridge North wales , Feb 2012
A solo visit to this Bridge and despite driving over it many times I was really pleased to see its lower levels.
Construction of the bridge begun in 1846 and was completed and opened by 5 March 1850. it was first used as a railway bridge linking anglesey to the mainland. It was constructed of large wrought iron tubular sections that were assembled on shore then floated out and hoisted into place using jacks. In 1970 the bridge caught fire and being wooden it took light easily, the damage to the bridge was severe and there was little that the emergency services could do due to the height of the bridge so the fire was left to burn out, By 1972 the bridge had been reconstructed and redesigned and was opened once again to rail traffic, this time instead of having 2 rail lines only 1 was in place an there were no wrought iron tunnels. By 1980 a upper section to the bridge was opened which carried the A55 single carridgeway. The Bridge from the menai straights looking up http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p...fullbridge.jpg from underneath the bridge http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p...les/bridge.jpg The Lions at the beginning of on side of the bridge http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p...ales/lions.jpg On the bridge and approaching one of the gantry ladders http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p...ales/steps.jpg Beneath one of the columns, the ladder just led to a platform with no walkways, it was getting down to this platform that I discovered that my new manfrotto tripod may not be ideal as it got caught in the ladder frame..bit of a shitter really. http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p...les/gantry.jpg from the same platform looking towards the mainland http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p...es/gantry2.jpg Under the bridge on the maintenance walkway http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p...ales/walk1.jpg The same walkway http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p...s/walkway3.jpg Between the railway line and the pipe run http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p...s/perspect.jpg On the upper roadway is the samaritans telephone because this bridge is reknowned for suicide leaps http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p...samaritan1.jpg It is Freephone number http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p...samaritan2.jpg Thanks for looking |
This is nice mate! Well done! :D
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Thanks paul...have a good trip to Espania....speak soon.
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lol, i've never seen a samaritans phone, seen a few signs on bridges, but never a phone.
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nice one, some cracking pics.
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Cheers for the replies, redood the phone was a surprise to me aswell, was gonna take a shot with it off the hook but thought better of it incase an alarm went off or something.
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top stuff :)
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Good call Andy!
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