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Thursday, March 15, 2018

summary about the panmure bridge

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  • After some years the bridge kept on breaking down so they destroyed it and made a better one so they had to raise enough money so they can pay for the bridge  .
Sometimes it took hours for the swing bridge to open and close because of the tides.


Second bridge
1913 it was obvious that that a new bridge would be required they had to use Reinforced concrete and Motor vehicles were displacing horses and a wider bridge was desirable.Finally he cut the ribbon and drove a heavy traction engine across the new bridge to prove the ability of the structure to take heavy loads. On 14th august 1916 however by 1930 serious faults in the new bridge were reported when a large crack across the full width of the bridge at the southern end was discovered,This bridge was demolished in 1959 after the present bridge was opened.


Third bridge
This latter bridge is a three-lane reinforced high-level bridge, with the centre lane used for westwards traffic flow in the morning and eastwards in the afternoon,A new bridge was built in 1959  


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