Bridge Postcards of 2016

This year’s selection begins in Romania – a train crossing the Danube emerges through a ceremonial arch from a truss bridge toward a platform where a listless group of passengers wait. Elaborate castellations are flanked by oversize sculptures of armed guards, bayonets at the ready. And there’s some nonsense with a ladder. On our imaginary journey to Quincy Point we pass suspension bridges, lifting bridges, swing bridges, causeways and viaducts. Last year's selection can be revisited by following this link.

Bridges of 2016

Keadby Bridge (1916) carries road and rail over the River Trent at Althorpe in Lincolnshire

It’s been another good year for visiting bridges. Our travels took us to Humberside plus Selby and Keadby in February. In April we were in sunny Teesside followed by a trip to Germany in May. Sussex in late May, North Wales and London in September and finally Knaresborough in October complete this year’s review. Last year’s selection can be seen here.

Drypool Bridge over the River Hull built as a Scherzer rolling lift bridge in 1961

North Bridge over the River Hull constructed as a Scherzer rolling lift bridge in 1928-32

Humber Bridge, suspension bridge opened in 1981

Selby Swingbridge over the River Ouse built in 1891 by the North Eastern Railway

Newport Vertical Lift Bridge (1934) over the River Tees between Stockton and Middlesbrough

Middlesbrough Transporter Bridge (1911)

Dornheimer Brücke, north of Darmstadt Hbf

Dornheimer Brücke, north of Darmstadt Hbf

Südbrücke, Mainz - completed in 1868

Main-Neckar-Brücke, Frankfurt - built in 1927

Eiserner Steg, footbridge over the River Main in Frankfurt -  built in 1868 

Flößerbrücke Frankfurt – completed in 1984

Ouse Valley Viaduct, Balcombe, West Sussex, built in 1841

Ouse Valley Viaduct, Balcombe, West Sussex, built in 1841

Adur Ferry Bridge at Shoreham, opened in 2013

Thomas Telford's 1826 suspension bridge over the Menai Strait

Hammersmith Bridge (1887), designed by Joseph Bazalgette

Blackfriars Bridge (1869) looking south

Blackfriars Railway Bridge (1886)

Knaresborough Viaduct (1851) over the River Nidd in Yorkshire