The Swing Bridge opened in June 1876 at the very same ... Both the Newcastle and Gateshead sides of the River Tyne have been scrubbed up and transformed over the last few decades.

Show more Port of Tyne officials warned on Tuesday, as they had in 2023, that a solution to the Swing Bridge’s woes “will not be found quickly”. A spokesperson for the port said ...

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The Somerleyton Swing Bridge, over the River Waveney on the Norfolk-Suffolk border, was built in 1905. The bridge, near Somerleyton, Suffolk, carries the double-tracked Norwich to Lowestoft ...

Drivers are being warned Tyne Bridge repair work will ... About 70,000 vehicles cross the bridge every day, but once works are in full swing it is expected to drop by 50%. Over the coming months ...

Tyneside’s famous Swing Bridge has now gone more than five years without being able to swing. Long-standing worries about the future of the bridge remain, with the mechanism that allows it to rotate ...