Runcorn - Widnes Transporter Bridge spanning the River Mersey and the Manchester Ship Canal, Runcorn Gap, Cheshire: the transporter car crossing the canal Architect/Designer Webster, John (1845-1914) Artist/Photographer Nairn, Ian (1930-1983) Country UK: England City Runcorn Subject Date 1905 Image Date 1962 View Exterior Medium Photoprint Library Reference AP274/15 Orientation Portrait Colour Info Black and white Credit Architectural Press Archive / RIBA Collections Subject Bridges ; Canals ; Rivers
NOTES; This was Britain's first transporter bridge and remained in use until 1961 when it was replaced by a through arch bridge, renamed the Silver Jubilee Bridge in 1977. It was subsequently demolished.
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