[Closed] Bridges on your local rides.

Bennerley Viaduct - now owned by Sustrans, who seem at a bit of a loss what to do with it!

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Victoria Viaduct, can be ridden under or over. Over is a bit of a pig though as it has all the ballast from the rail line still in place.

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Hylton Viaduct

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QA Bridge

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Wearmouth Bridge

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There's other little footbridges but these are the usual suspects.

Loves this post. Did a ride about 10 years ago from Leeds to Ilkley taking in all the bridges and viaducts we could think of, great day.

Will have to dig out the film and scan it one day.

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Essex bridge near Shugborough. Great little cafe on the canal next to it too.

My favourite

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I occasionally pop by this one as well.

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It's not a bridge, it's an entrance to what was part of the country estate with a lake beside it and it's not local to me either. I both walked and cycled through it, gorgeous landmark in a lovely part of England.

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Both on my commute
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Cheeky stuff in this one

Martin, is your first one just outside Austwick?

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Need to be quite far away to get all of said bridge in frame. Often go across on my road bike, as the riding on the south bank is lovely. If you listen carefully you can sometimes make out the faint sound of banjo's, drifting across the river 🙂

We need to include this one on one of our summer mnpr rides. Not far from the second one you posted HtS
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These are mainly from where I go running, although there is a little bit of riding round there too.

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The Tay road bridge

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View up the river to the railway bridge

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View down the river and out to sea

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Do photos have to be held online to post here or can u do it direct from the gallery on your phone??

Held online ,they are web links

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Love these sort of threads...

The Armsgrove Viaduct, Wayoh Reservoir

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Railway bridge at Turton Tower

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A bridge that no longer crosses anything or goes from anywhere to anywhere! One from our C2C ride in 2011..

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I've always wanted to get someone sitting in each of the arches of that bridge for a photo...

Ain't bridges Brilliant! /fastshow

Floaty bridge:
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Slippy bridge:
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Rusty bridge:
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Stoney bridge:
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😉

Lady Gresley
I've always wanted to get someone sitting in each of the arches of that bridge for a photo..

Like this:

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😉

Another one from my local runs. Not technically a bridge.

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Never had the bottle / necessary skills to try and ride across

Never had the bottle / necessary skills to try and ride across

I'm sure that you would manage it easily mate. I'll just get me camera and pop down and you could have a go this afternoon? 😆

🙂

By the way I've found your zesty Craig. Looks like you left it up at Wayoh all along. 😉

Love the Meccano bridge. I must take a trip out to it.

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The railway bridge at the top of Swanwick over the river Hamble, my local...

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Martin, is your first one just outside Austwick?

Yes, that's the one. I love clapper bridges.

Someone has somehow taken a chunk out of this one. Hopefully I won't end up in the beck next time I try to ride it.

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Maxtorque I thought that pic looked familiar thats a landing stage on the River Nene at Washlands FSR.

Been over on this morning's road ride:

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Regularly used to get over on road bikes to Wales and the Wye Valley:

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Aquaduct on the canal towpath between Bath and Bradford-on-Avon

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Some lovely bridges, that castle one is crazy. There was a thread about viaducts a while back...

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/viaducts-near-you

My oh on the a bridge over the A689 on the way to Thorpe Thewles for a cup of tea and a cream scone, we just call it the 'lovely bridge' 😳

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and the tea and cream scone-

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Om nom nom 😀

This one is probably known by a fair number of STWers.
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These on various options on my commute 🙂

Cardiff Bay barrage:

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Taff Trail 'footbridge':

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Grew up 500 yds from this one, still ride over it regularly:

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Usually on the way to crossing this one at some point:

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Ribblehed viaduct eh ?
Spent possibly the most uncomfortable night in a tent about 50 metres from the north eastern corner of that in 1975, touring the Dales with a mate on 5 speed steel framed bikes. I think My mates was a Raleigh and mine had come from Currys, of all places, it had been a present for passing my 11 plus. We were 15 when we did that trip, in the days when it was safe to play out !
Home was 200 odd miles away and we had taken the bikes by train to Settle. Great times.

Under the A303 near Wylye..

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Climbed up on this one a couple of times as a kid. All fenced off now! Used to be part of a viaduct across Stour Meadows, Blandford, on the Somerset and Dorset Railway.

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Also used to be quite interested in that 'test' bridge on the fireroad climb at Glentress, the Stress Laminated Timber Arch Bridge.

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I occasionally ride over the Orwell
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We were up there around bonfire night and were higher than some of the fireworks that the local scrotes were setting off, which looked quite impressive.

Some history of ours - one of the lads uses this as his school route daily.

http://happypontist.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/scottish-bridges-21-faery-bridge.html

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Brig o Balgownie

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The cobbles make for interesting riding on frosty mornings.

Broke my elbow just near the first one Bregante posted a couple of months back.

Hopefully I'll be back up there soon.

From todays ride.
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Perhaps that last one doesn't quite count, but that's quite a few briges crossed, (and there was a few more)

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a bridge over a bridge over a bridge over a canal !
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I occasionally ride over the Orwell
We were up there around bonfire night and were higher than some of the fireworks that the local scrotes were setting off, which looked quite impressive.

I've driven over it many times but never ridden it, I guess it's quite challenging when it's windy?

The only one I can lay claim to have ridden is the aqueduct near Bradford on Avon but not on MTB, but I did have full suspension!

Sorry not really to do with cycling but:
A mate of mine was an engineer on the construction of the Orwell bridge
the company I worked for as a young civil engineer designed the reconstruction of the Britannia Bridge over the Menai Strait
my first job with the same company was knocking lumps of rust off this with a big hammer and measuring what was left.

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66deg - Member
This one is probably known by a fair number of STWers.

Which everyone knows you're not supposed to ride over of course... and then ignores that 😀

Right, a bridge, some might know. Narrow and about 750 bar wide...

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Lock at Curzon Bridges deadkenny 😉

That's the one 😀

Never cleared it in the other direction!

Three Shires head

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I'm confused..

If the first bridge in Maxtorque's set is the river Nene, and I'm sure the last one in his set is definitely Dartmoor cos it's this bridge here:

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and the third in his set looks alpine, so where the bleeding heck do you live for all those bridges to be on your 'local rides' as requested in the thread title 😉

/end pedant

Not clue where the other 3 pics are from but I know 100% the first is Washlands Northampton.

Not on a ride, but a walk where you can walk behind the waterfall below the bridge. One of my favourite places

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yunki
I'm confused..

Unfortunately this is quite common in older people...... 😉

yunki
so where the bleeding heck do you live for all those bridges to be on your 'local rides' as requested in the thread title

Ok, i slightly cheated with the last one, but i live in Northamptonshire, and my Parents live on Dartmoor, so i'm claiming both as "local". And the alps one, well, it's local to some fantastic holiday riding i do every summer, so there!!! 😉

I love bridges, what a great thread.

Malvern Rider has already done one of the bridges I regularly ride over (yes there is only one bridge in that photo!), here are some of the others (all stock photos I'm afraid, but all on my local rides - and apart from the first, ones I also often kayak under):

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(in fact looking at those, MR picked one of the least attractive!)

I spent my late teens through 20's riding over this beauty. I lived up the hill behind the Church and Bouy, do I miss that place, some fabulous riding up there..m 8)

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Elterwater near Selwith, I love this bridge a great bit of engineering and art!

St Ives, Cambs. Thursday night pub ride sometimes gets that far.

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The Essex Bridge at Shugborough is on the way home from our regular Thursday night ride. As a consequence i've only ever been on it after midnight coming back after 6 or 7 in the pub. There tends to be a lot of barging and tyre buzzing over it as it's only about 3 feet wide and the side walls are only 2 feet high.

One day I saw it in daylight and it's about 20 feet high. Gulp.

I take it a little more carefully these days

cvilla - Member
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Elterwater near Selwith, I love this bridge a great bit of engineering and art!

Nice

The "£5 note bridge" is just along from my house; Stephenson's 1825 Stockton and Darlington Railway ran over it:

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I don't ride under it as the 'towpath' arches are currently bricked up, but it'll hopefully soon be opened up and form part of a nice ride to work.

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and the other one. Sadly cant cross on the bike with this one 🙂

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@bikebouy I used to ride over that bridge a lot too! Some of the bridges from today's ride.

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