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Trying to think of a bridge but can't remember where it is.

It is like the chain ferry of bridges. You get on it and it shuttles you across. It's an old bridge, the photos I have seen show it to be up high. Can you name it?


 
Posted : 12/10/2015 5:26 pm
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Transporter bridge on Teesside?


 
Posted : 12/10/2015 5:29 pm
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I think that is it let me Google...


 
Posted : 12/10/2015 5:31 pm
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Gerald ?


 
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Bridges are female you fool!


 
Posted : 12/10/2015 5:33 pm
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biffins bridge - are you allowed across ?


 
Posted : 12/10/2015 5:41 pm
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I'd have guessed Transporter Bridge in smogland as well.


 
Posted : 12/10/2015 5:43 pm
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There's one in Newport, too


 
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After some googling I think the first answer was correct. You win a prize of vast wealth. My college in Lagos will be contacting you shortly to arrange delivery. His name is Gerald.


 
Posted : 12/10/2015 5:48 pm
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No pictures?
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Posted : 12/10/2015 5:57 pm
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Puente colgante

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Posted : 12/10/2015 5:59 pm
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Oooh where is that. Looks cool. Looks continental!


 
Posted : 12/10/2015 6:13 pm
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Looks like Spain.
Nice.


 
Posted : 12/10/2015 6:19 pm
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Errr, fools. FYI the Transporter bridge is now in Arizona (well, America anyway) cos some blokes took it to bits & sold it to some First Nation guys over there so they could get over the valley on their reservation without driving for miles.
I saw it on the telly ages ago. 🙄


 
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Puertogalete near Bilbao in the Basque country.


 
Posted : 12/10/2015 6:50 pm
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There's still a pont transbordeur near Rochefort in Charente Matitime too. I saw it working in the 80s but it wasn't the last time I went past.

Edit: The pic didn't work.


 
Posted : 12/10/2015 7:13 pm
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You can walk over the top of the Newport one, too.

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Posted : 12/10/2015 7:18 pm
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Nice


 
Posted : 12/10/2015 7:41 pm
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Edukator that's a big ass boat for a bridge that flimsy!


 
Posted : 12/10/2015 7:44 pm
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QE II I reckon. We crossed on a little ferry boat.


 
Posted : 12/10/2015 7:52 pm