Have you ever been on a Transporter Bridge?
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SiberianPrincess’sMidriff
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Well, have you? Yes 0% [ 0 ] No 100% [ 3 ] Don't know 0% [ 0 ] Dunno what dat is. 0% [ 0 ] No but I'd like to 0% [ 0 ] Never, ever. 0% [ 0 ] Not saying 0% [ 0 ]
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Author Message SiberianPrincess’sMidriff
Posts : 42095Karma : 455Join date : 2021-07-19 Subject: Have you ever been on a Transporter Bridge? Fri Dec 15, 2023 6:17 pm Middlesbrough Yesterday
SiberianPrincess’sMidriff
Posts : 42095Karma : 455Join date : 2021-07-19 Subject: Re: Have you ever been on a Transporter Bridge? Fri Dec 15, 2023 6:22 pm VIDEO
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Posts : 141016Karma : 1129Join date : 2018-05-02 Subject: Re: Have you ever been on a Transporter Bridge? Fri Dec 15, 2023 7:37 pm I've never even seen a transporter bridge in person.
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Posts : 141016Karma : 1129Join date : 2018-05-02 Subject: Re: Have you ever been on a Transporter Bridge? Fri Dec 15, 2023 7:39 pm It seems a very inefficient way of moving traffic.
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Nightjar
Posts : 104058Karma : 843Join date : 2018-05-05 Subject: Re: Have you ever been on a Transporter Bridge? Fri Dec 15, 2023 8:09 pm Fuc k transporter bridges.
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SiberianPrincess’sMidriff
Posts : 42095Karma : 455Join date : 2021-07-19 Subject: Re: Have you ever been on a Transporter Bridge? Fri Dec 15, 2023 8:14 pm I didn't know there was a rusted old one in W*rrington, I might have a look at it if I can be bothered.
Nightjar
Posts : 104058Karma : 843Join date : 2018-05-05 Subject: Re: Have you ever been on a Transporter Bridge? Fri Dec 15, 2023 8:36 pm I've probably seen one from a car.
Like, once.
Is there one in Inverness, perchance?
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SiberianPrincess’sMidriff
Posts : 42095Karma : 455Join date : 2021-07-19 Subject: Re: Have you ever been on a Transporter Bridge? Fri Dec 15, 2023 8:40 pm No.
This is the best one:
https://www.hodkovicenm.cz/dr-en/26870-transborder-transporter-bridge.html
Butterfield
Posts : 17614Karma : 372Join date : 2018-05-03 Subject: Re: Have you ever been on a Transporter Bridge? Sat Dec 16, 2023 1:10 am I've seen the one in Middlesbrough in the distance. It's rather prominent.
Butterfield
Posts : 17614Karma : 372Join date : 2018-05-03 Subject: Re: Have you ever been on a Transporter Bridge? Sat Dec 16, 2023 1:13 am I say "in the distance", but looking at the road I drove down last year it was actually rather close!
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Posts : 11088Karma : 385Join date : 2018-05-03 Subject: Re: Have you ever been on a Transporter Bridge? Sat Dec 16, 2023 8:41 am I went over the Newport transporter bridge in the 70s, in my grandad's antique Morris Minor, with semaphore indicators. And on a field trip in the 80s we went up onto the top bit to see how it worked.
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cosmictanya
Posts : 5355Karma : 211Join date : 2019-08-14 Subject: Re: Have you ever been on a Transporter Bridge? Sat Dec 16, 2023 5:22 pm Not to my knowledge. And I don’t think I’ve ever seen one either. I don’t tend to hang out by the docks.
cosmictanya
Posts : 5355Karma : 211Join date : 2019-08-14 Subject: Re: Have you ever been on a Transporter Bridge? Sat Dec 16, 2023 5:24 pm Butterfield wrote: I say "in the distance", but looking at the road I drove down last year it was actually rather close! Seaton Carew - I recognise the name. That’s where the canoe couple came from.
Butterfield
Posts : 17614Karma : 372Join date : 2018-05-03 Subject: Re: Have you ever been on a Transporter Bridge? Sun Dec 17, 2023 1:44 am cosmictanya wrote: Seaton Carew - I recognise the name. That’s where the canoe couple came from. Yes! That's where I'd visited - huge sandy beach, but not much else.
I was vaguely familiar with the story of the man who vanished but I hadn't seen any of the drama that had been on.
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