Bridges?

The famous Bridge On the River Kwai in Thailand. The rounded truss is part of the original bridge while the square ones were replaced by Japan after WW2 when the bridge had been destroyed by Allied bombs.

speedync wrote in post #19450124
That would have been a great job avondale. Just about perfect. In the great outdoors, wandering around the bush, doing a bit of survey work, fabulous. I'm actually a bit jealous

Yes it's a life I'd do all over again. Well maybe not so thrilling these days. Times have moved on.

I posted this a few years back.
Batman bridge over Tamar estuary (they call it a river )
From the top of the A tower.
Taken on one of my monitoring trips.
Climb up inside tower leg to check stretching of support cable's

An awesome view from the top.
It was finished in 1968
A scan from Slide. Zeiss Contaflex. EKtachrome film

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A bridge spanning the Autobahn in Bavaria, Germany.

Tower Bridge, London

East tower of George Washington Bridge in New York with little red light house below

A Bangkok Silom line BTS Skytrain passing over the Saphan Taksin Bridge on the Chao Phraya River.

A Medieval Pack Horse Bridge at Wycoller, Lancashire UK. not bad for a solid stone bridge dating from about 800 years ago, but Clam bridge (second image) just downstream of it predates that, and is about a thousand years old.

The Ferreres Aqueduct near Tarragona, Spain was built by the Romans in 20BC and is still standing.

Pantry42 wrote in post #19457735
A Medieval Pack Horse Bridge at Wycoller, Lancashire UK. not bad for a solid stone bridge dating from about 800 years ago, but Clam bridge (second image) just downstream of it predates that, and is about a thousand years old.

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The left hand side of the left arch of the pack horse bridge is quite different. Do you think that they started from the right and realised they had built it too long? That is a serious question

Jonzjob wrote in post #19457799
The left hand side of the left arch of the pack horse bridge is quite different. Do you think that they started from the right and realised they had built it too long? That is a serious question

...and one that I cannot answer , personally I dont think that the aesthetic element came into play, more a case of just getting the job done!

Jonzjob wrote in post #19457799
The left hand side of the left arch of the pack horse bridge is quite different. Do you think that they started from the right and realised they had built it too long? That is a serious question

when you look at the right arch it is beautifully made and I'd wondered if other side had collapsed and somehow they ended up with this. But the rest of it doesn't look out of kilter and the capping along top looks okay but that's a heck of a long time ago to make assumptions on

Ah, but it did come in to play and it's a lovely and very unusual bridge and you have done it proud.

That would have been about the time you were first around Richard

Jonzjob wrote in post #19457810
Ah, but it did come in to play and it's a lovely and very unusual bridge and you have done it proud.

That would have been about the time you were first around Richard

Many Thanks

FLphotoguy wrote in post #19457773
The Ferreres Aqueduct near Tarragona, Spain was built by the Romans in 20BC and is still standing.

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they don't make things like they use to