Sunday 13 February 2011

Drypool Bridge, Hull


The Drypool bridge was built in 1961 and replaced a much smaller bridge. It is designed to lift to allow river traffic to pass under; fortunately for road traffic this happens infrequently these days. You can appreciate that when the river bridges are under repair Hull's cross town traffic grinds to a halt.
For those with an engineering interest this is a bascule bridge; you can see an animation of how it works here.

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