Britannia Bridge (Welsh: Pont Britannia) is a bridge in Wales that crosses the Menai Strait between the Isle of Anglesey and city of Bangor. It was originally...
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Menai Strait (section Britannia Bridge)
Thomas Telford and carries the A5 road, and the Britannia Bridge (Pont Britannia) a truss arch bridge which carries the North Wales Main Line and the...
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tubular bridge is a bridge built as a rigid box girder section within which the traffic is carried. Famous examples include the original Britannia Bridge over...
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requiring all traffic to cross via the nearby Britannia Bridge. On 28 February 2005, one carriageway of the bridge was closed for six months, restricting traffic...
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Box girder (section In bridges)
Tubular bridges Britannia Bridge Conwy Railway Bridge Box girder bridges Severn Bridge Cleddau Bridge West Gate Bridge Koblenz Bridge Gateway Bridge, Brisbane...
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the original Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait was partially destroyed in a fire in 1970 and rebuilt as a two-tier truss arch bridge design. The...
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of Anglesey, Wales. It is located on the Menai Strait, next to the Britannia Bridge. At the 2011 Census the population was 3,107, of whom 71% could speak...
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double-decked bridge. The upper level carries a railway, and the lower level is used for road traffic. Other examples include Britannia Bridge over the Menai...
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mainland is spanned by the Menai Suspension Bridge, designed by Thomas Telford in 1826, and the Britannia Bridge, originally designed by Robert Stephenson...
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The Menai Heritage Bridges Exhibition celebrates the Menai Suspension Bridge, built by Thomas Telford, and the Britannia Bridge, built by Robert Stephenson...
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which the traffic is carried. Examples include the Britannia Bridge and the Conwy Railway Bridge in the United Kingdom. A skyway is a type of urban pedway...
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Look up Britannia or Brittania in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Britannia is the Latin name for Britain, used as the female personification of Britain...
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was hugely expensive, chiefly due to the cost of building the Britannia Tubular Bridge over the Menai Strait. The company had relied on Government support...
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Third Menai Crossing (category Proposed bridges in the United Kingdom)
current A55 Britannia Bridge. There were proposals for a tunnel in 2001, but these were deemed implausible. The first proposals for a bridge were made in...
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The Runcorn Railway Bridge, Ethelfleda Bridge or Britannia Bridge crosses the River Mersey at Runcorn Gap between Runcorn and Widnes in Cheshire, England...
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engineering structures, including Conwy railway bridge across the River Conwy, and Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait. The first section from Crewe...
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Limehouse Cut (redirect from Stinkhouse Bridge)
after the Dutch fashion. Britannia Bridge is where the Commercial Road crosses the Cut. It was named after the Britannia Tavern (c.1770-1911), which...
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Holyhead is a dual carriageway primary route, with the exception of the Britannia Bridge over the Menai Strait and several short sections where there are gaps...
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box girder original Britannia Bridge which connected Anglesey until damaged by fire and replaced with a different type of tall bridge. John Scott Russell...
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the girders of his Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait in the same year. From 1849 to 1853 Brunel was erecting an iron bridge of his own; the Chepstow...
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"Swellies". This area, bounded by the two Menai bridges (the Menai Suspension Bridge and Britannia Bridge), is notorious for underwater shoals and dangerous...
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initially the terminus of the line from Holyhead before the opening of the Britannia Bridge to the mainland in 1850. It suffered a catastrophic fire on 13 November...
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Robert Stephenson (category British bridge engineers)
such as the Britannia Bridge in Wales, a design he would later use for the Victoria Bridge in Montreal, for many years the longest bridge in the world...
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1970. In May of the same year, there was a catastrophic fire in the Britannia Bridge and the rail-borne container traffic was unable to connect Holyhead...
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in the United States, is approved. October 19 – Robert Stephenson's Britannia Bridge, completing the Chester and Holyhead Railway over the Menai Strait...
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This is a list of bridge failures. The General (1926 film): The fictional Rock River bridge, a wooden trestle bridge purpose-built for the film, is set...
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Brecon, Usk Bridge Britannia Bridge Briton Ferry Bridge, carries the M4 over the River Neath south of the town of Neath Cardiff, Cardiff Bridge Conwy Suspension...
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construction in India. June 20 – First tube of Robert Stephenson's Britannia Bridge is floated into position on the Menai Strait for the Chester and Holyhead...
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Arch (category Bridge components)
bridge. [...] Stonehenge is more scientifically constructed than York Minster." Use of arches in bridge construction continued (the Britannia Bridge was...
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popular use of the name is for the stretch between the Britannia Bridge and the Menai Bridge. It is notable for its difficulty in safely navigating its...
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