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Pages in category "Wooden bridges" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
A lightweight box crib Hardwood railway sleepers used as a box crib, North Australian Railway, 1975 Bailey Island Bridge, Harpswell, Maine. The only granite cribstone bridge in the world. A box crib or cribbing is a temporary wooden structure used to support heavy objects during construction, relocation, vehicle extrication and urban search and ...
On April 6, 2001, the reconstructed wooden footbridge was opened, being the longest wooden bridge in Switzerland. The Kapellbrücke is a 204-metre-long (669 ft) bridge crossing the Reuss in the city of Lucerne in Switzerland. It is the oldest wooden covered bridge in Europe, and one of Switzerland's main tourist attractions. [citation needed]
Wooden bridges in the United States (1 C, 25 P) This page was last edited on 22 December 2023, at 10:23 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
The Kapellbrücke (literally, Chapel Bridge) is a covered wooden footbridge spanning the river Reuss diagonally in the city of Lucerne in central Switzerland.Named after the nearby St. Peter's Chapel, [1] the bridge is unique in containing a number of interior paintings dating back to the 17th century, although many of them were destroyed along with a larger part of the centuries-old bridge in ...
The central section of the Magere Brug is a bascule bridge made of white-painted wood. The present bridge was built in 1934. The first bridge at this site was built in 1691 as Kerkstraatbrug and had 13 arches. Because this bridge was very narrow, the locals called it magere brug, which literally means "skinny bridge". In 1871 the state of the ...
Some bridges are measured from the beginning of the entrance ramp to the end of the exit ramp. Some are measured from shoreline to shoreline. Yet others use the length of the total construction involved in building the bridge. Since there is no standard, no ranking of a bridge should be assumed because of its position in the list.
Wooden bridges in the United States by state or territory (32 C) Pages in category "Wooden bridges in the United States" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total.