Talk:Middlesbrough Transporter Bridge
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• I’m doing all about the transporter bridge. This is because it is local and that I see it everyday on the way to and from school. I would also like to find out more so the next few paragraphs should help me. I have also chosen it because not only is it local but the fact that I have never seen it up close and so I do wish sometime I will see it and this will help me respect it even more. The bridge is blue and is made from steel. It can carry up to a maximum of 600 people at a time. You drive or walk into a cradle that is suspended beneath the main span of the bridge and which carries its load of cars and people across the Tees and lifts them a massive 160ft above the river in just two and a half minutes. It even featured in the film Billy Elliott. The Transporter Bridge is the best known landmark in Teesside. Its famous shape is seen for miles around Middlesbrough. But don’t expect to drive across the bridge though - you are carried across the water in a cradle suspended beneath the main space of the bridge. It is the largest working bridge of its kind in the world
[edit] Jinxed
- I have a friend who lives in Redcar who promises me the bridge is in working order, but every time I've been to visit him over the last ten years it has been out of order and we have not been able to take a trip on it. I think that it does not actually work, there is a giant Teesside cover-up going on.
Well, it was certainly working when Auf Wiedersehen Pet filmed there in '02 Martyn Smith 09:47, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
