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A vertical-lift bridge or just lift bridge is a type of movable bridge in which a span rises vertically while remaining parallel with the deck. The vertical lift offers several benefits over other movable bridges such as the bascule and swing-span bridges. Generally speaking, they cost less to build for longer moveable spans. [1]
A bascule bridge (also referred to as a drawbridge or a lifting bridge) is a moveable bridge with a counterweight that continuously balances a span, or leaf ...
A moveable bridge, or movable bridge, is a bridge that moves to allow passage for boats [1] or barges. [2] In American English, the term is synonymous with drawbridge , and the latter is the common term, but drawbridge can be limited to the narrower, historical definition used in some other forms of English, in which drawbridge refers to only a ...
The Rolling Bridge is a kinetic sculpture, [2] [3] and a unique type of curling moveable bridge, completed in 2004 as part of the Grand Union Canal office and retail development project at Paddington Basin, London.
Broadwater Bridge, across the Richmond River - built using the renovated bascule span from the demolished Barneys Point Bridge on the Tweed River (New South Wales), converted from counterweight to hydraulic ram lift. Bridge on Franklin Wharf, Constitution Dock, Hobart; Marina Bridge - Bridge over Auckland Creek, on Bryan Jordan Dr, West Gladstone
Pamban Bridge (Tamil:, romanised: pāmban) was a railway bridge that connected the town of Rameswaram on Pamban Island with Mandapam in mainland India. Opened on 24 February 1914, it was India's first sea bridge, and was the longest sea bridge in India until the opening of the Bandra–Worli Sea Link in 2010.
The first proposal for a third crossing for Lowestoft was made in 1918, just after the First World War ended, [5] Since the 19th century, Lowestoft was divided by two by development of its port on the coastline, and a canal lock between the western edge of Lake Lothing and the Broads, both of which had already brought in two swing bridges to provide two major arterial routes between the north ...
The hydraulic Swing Bridge was designed and paid for by Armstrong, with work beginning in 1873. It was first used for road traffic on 15 June 1876 and opened for river traffic on 17 July 1876. [ 4 ] At the time of construction it was the largest swing bridge ever built.