River Tamar Bridge Shadows
Wednesday, 5th April 2006 by Alex Turnbull
Check out the awesome twin shadows of two bridges linking Devon and Cornwall over the River Tamar, England. The suspension bridge to the north is the Tamar Bridge which at the time of its opening was the longest suspension bridge in the UK. In 2001 it became:
the world's first suspension bridge to be widened using cantilevers, and the world's first bridge to undergo strengthening and widening work while remaining open to traffic.
Just to the south is the Royal Albert Bridge which was designed in 1855 by Isambard Kingdom Brunel no less!
Hello everyone, I just wanted all of you to know that Iceland is a real country, not just som joke. I live in Iceland in it is wery cold. Just wanted to clear this out.
Með bestu kveðjum frá �slandi, öndvegis stað veraldar
Thanks for clearing that up Jonatan. I personally know iceland to be a real place because i have seen it on Pingu. It looks very nice and would like to visit now that the annoying little pixie Bjork doesnt live there anymore.
Ha Ha Ha. brilliant. this guy thinks he lives in iceland – as if anyone lives there – its not even a real country.
On a serious (and less sarcastic note) here is the clifton suspension bridge also designed and (partially) built by brunel and often considered one of the great feats of engineering.
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the sat shots dont do it justice – here are some ground level shots and a very good website related to the bridge.
http://www.clifton-suspension-bridge.org.uk/
and by all accounts it is ridiculously over-engineered, apparentley able to support a row of terraced houses along its length. (for obvious reasons nobody has tried this).
where did that random post come from? Those crazy Icelanders (???)!
watch the speed limits that’s all i can say.
Nicest policeman in the world ever smiled jokingly and produced a VISA transaction machine from his monster truck and gave me a 25% discount for being foreign.
crazy country, lovely people.
absolutely nothing to do with the Tamar bridge.
one day I hope there’ll be hi-res imagery of this other rather spectacular bridge over another Tamar River in Tasmania. Ground level shot at Wikipedia.
And they called it the Batman Bridge? I feel sorry for the guy it was named after.
anyone have any idea what the military get up to in the base thats underneath the field just above the bridge and to the right? when you travel over the tamar bridge from the cornwall side the entrance is in plain view
“””anyone have any idea what the military get up to in the base thats underneath the field just above the bridge and to the right?””
its a ammo store. behind the blue doors ( you can see them) . there is enough ammo under that hill— to start a small war!! which is handy–
By the way. Brunels Railway bridge is also a suspention bridge–and again -the first in the world of its kind.
thanks Adam – i always though we’d take out cornwall when the time is right…
i really enjoy taking holidays around the world england has some good points but it also has bad ones.