Newport Transporter Bridge Photograph

This material is held atGwent Archives / Archifau Gwent

  • Reference
    • GB 218 Misc. MSS 510
  • Dates of Creation
    • [20th century]
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • Not applicable
  • Physical Description
    • (1 photograph)

Scope and Content

Photograph of Newport Transporter Bridge, [20th century].

Administrative / Biographical History

Newport Transporter Bridge, Newport, Monmouthshire, was built over the River Usk between 1902 and 1906 and opened in September 1906. Its purpose was to provide a second crossing over the Usk without impeding high-masted ships. Passengers are carried in a gondola suspended under a high railway track between two towers and it is one of only seven such bridges in the world.

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Note

Compiled by Rhys Jones for the ANW project. The following sources were used in the compilation of this description: Gwent Record Office, Misc. MSS; Friends of Newport Transporter Bridge (FONTB) website (www.fontb.org.uk), viewed 16 January 2006.

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