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Post by peterob on Jul 20, 2024 10:31:19 GMT
Technically this is a river crossing, even if the river is a long way below (very long way below). Must be a bit hairy in a boat and looking over the edge. It is bad enough on the towpath with a railing to hold on to. I must have a photo looking up at it from the river but I can't find it. Pontcysyllte  274A4893.jpg by Pete, on Flickr  274A4890.jpg by Pete, on Flickr |
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Post by Kath on Jul 20, 2024 10:43:09 GMT
 ErskineBridge by Kath Polley, on Flickr  ErskineBridge2 by Kath Polley, on Flickr The Erskine Bridge under construction, crossing the Clyde. I well remember being driven across it as a child once it had opened - all tungsten lights and speed! The toll charge was still in effect when my two older children were small. By the time Felicity came along it had ended and so she never got the pleasure of arguing whose turn it was to hold the ticket. |
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Post by peterob on Jul 20, 2024 13:23:00 GMT
Runcorn Bridge (now toll).  274A2352.jpg by Pete, on Flickr I thought I had a picture of the Mersey Gateway Bridge under construction too. It is about 1 km away, looking the other way from where this was taken, but there is a gap of 6 images in the file numbering so I must have deleted them or be misremembering. It was March 2017. The lens was a 24 mm so probably they were images of sky and Mersey and little else. |
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Post by peterob on Jul 20, 2024 13:36:04 GMT
This is a nice crossing of the Conwy at Llanrwst. The bridge is very narrow and it is impossible to see over the crown, which can make for hours of amusement in tourist season when it can get quite busy. There is a famous Tea Room on the far bank and playing fields too.  274A6823.jpg by Pete, on Flickr |
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Post by peterob on Jul 20, 2024 13:51:48 GMT
Track crossing the river by means of a bridge and the river crossing the track by means of a ford. I can think of a small number of fords that I have come across but (after looking for ages ) it seems that I don't have digital photos and I'm not starting on the negatives.  IMG_0008.jpg by Pete, on Flickr Edit: no sooner did I write that ... another ford (the River Lyd crossing track) but also stepping stones and a footbridge  274A4165.jpg by Pete, on Flickr |
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Post by petrochemist on Jul 20, 2024 16:16:54 GMT
Track crossing the river by means of a bridge and the river crossing the track by means of a ford. A similar situation was in the foreground of one of the shots I shared for Brick recently. The stream at Kersey is perhaps a bit small to be classed as a river, but I've only visited in the dryer months... snappers-social-club.proboards.com/post/63977 |
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Post by peterob on Jul 20, 2024 16:29:37 GMT
Track crossing the river by means of a bridge and the river crossing the track by means of a ford. A similar situation was in the foreground of one of the shots I shared for Brick recently. The stream at Kersey is perhaps a bit small to be classed as a river, but I've only visited in the dryer months... snappers-social-club.proboards.com/post/63977I know a stream that crosses a road. It isn't a ford, the water just runs across. Lots of cyclists have nasty crashes there because algae grow in the summer and the tarmac gets very, very slippery. No photos though. |
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Post by petrochemist on Jul 20, 2024 17:20:19 GMT
A similar situation was in the foreground of one of the shots I shared for Brick recently. The stream at Kersey is perhaps a bit small to be classed as a river, but I've only visited in the dryer months... snappers-social-club.proboards.com/post/63977I know a stream that crosses a road. It isn't a ford, the water just runs across. Lots of cyclists have nasty crashes there because algae grow in the summer and the tarmac gets very, very slippery. No photos though. It seems the stream at Kersey is known as the river Brett www.photographers-resource.co.uk/locations/nature/Fords/LG/kersey_ford.htm but it's pretty small the locals apparent call the ford 'the splash'. I've never seen it dry, the cobbles rather than the water would stop my trying to cycle through.  |
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Post by kate on Jul 21, 2024 7:26:37 GMT
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Post by aitch on Jul 21, 2024 9:03:26 GMT
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Post by zx9 on Jul 21, 2024 9:19:24 GMT
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Post by petrochemist on Jul 21, 2024 11:32:30 GMT
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Post by zx9 on Jul 21, 2024 16:27:51 GMT
I was looking for keystones and found one in this railway tunnel, part of the now disused track to the upper Crystal Palace station which was the posher of the two stations linked directly to the palace by a vaulted subway.  Sydenham Woods Tunnel 2 by Keith Hudson, on Flickr Not a great shot of the keystone but worth inclusion as it is unusual, we did not have them in East Yorkshire and I don't recall seeing any others around here. Perhaps the age (1852) and it's GWR ish shape accounts for the use of the keystone, I don't know. |
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Post by stevewmh on Jul 21, 2024 19:37:01 GMT
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Post by petrochemist on Jul 22, 2024 7:16:12 GMT
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