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The Newport Transporter Bridge (Welsh: Pont Gludo Casnewydd) is a transporter bridge that crosses the River Usk in Newport, South East Wales. The bridge is the lowest crossing on the River Usk. It is a Grade I listed structure. It is one of fewer than 10 transporter bridges that remain in use worldwide; only a few dozen were ever built.
The United Kingdom has four transporter bridges, though Warrington Transporter Bridge is disused and the modern Royal Victoria Dock Bridge, though designed with the potential to be used as a transporter bridge, has so far only been used as a high-level footbridge. The Newport Transporter Bridge was built in 1906 across the River Usk in Newport ...
Newport Transporter Bridge is the furthest downstream of the many crossings of the Usk. Completed in 1906, it is one of fewer than 10 such structures remaining in use across the world and, at just short of 200 metres (660 ft), is the longest of these.
Newport Town Bridge; Newport Transporter Bridge; S. St. Julian's railway bridge; U. Usk Railway Bridge This page was last edited on 1 October 2020, at 19:21 (UTC ...
Newport Bridge (Arkansas) over the White River in Newport, Arkansas; Bridges over the River Usk in the city of Newport, South Wales: Newport Town Bridge, a road bridge; Newport City Bridge, a road bridge; Newport City footbridge, a pedestrian/cycle footbridge; Newport Transporter Bridge, a car and pedestrian bridge; Tees Newport Bridge in ...
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Model of the River Tees, in the former park "Natures World", in 2009, with models of Transporter Bridge (left) and Newport Bridge (right), with the Riverside Stadium in the centre. The River Tees forms the traditional border between Yorkshire and County Durham, passes through the Teesside Urban area built-up area, and has many crossings. The ...
Specialising in cableway transporters, he is regarded as the inventor of the transporter bridge, having been the first to patent the idea in 1887. [1] However, the first such bridge was in fact designed by Alberto Palacio, with Arnodin's help. Nine of the eighteen known examples of the transporter bridge may be attributed to him.