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unusual facts about Footbridge



2009 Workington floods

The surge of water off the fells of the Lake District which flowed into Workington down the River Derwent washed away a road bridge and a footbridge.

A Day Without Me

The black and white image on the single's slip cover appears to show a footbridge in Booterstown Dart station in South Dublin, and not a Manchester railway bridge as it is claimed.

Albert Bridge, Glasgow

A timber footbridge replaced it in 1803, and in 1834 a masonry arch bridge was designed by Robert Stevenson, grandfather of Robert Louis Stevenson.

Bank Negara Komuter station

Interchanges between the stations require that one exit either stations and cross footbridge that crosses a major roadway and the Gombak River.

Berjaya Times Square

The Kuala Lumpur Monorail's Imbi station is linked to the building by a footbridge.

Cock Marsh

The railway line to Marlow and the Thames Path run through Cock Marsh and a footbridge cantilevered from Bourne End Railway Bridge over the river links it with Bourne End in Buckinghamshire where the path continues towards Marlow.

Country Park Halt railway station

Country Park Halt is an unstaffed request stop on the Severn Valley Railway heritage line in Shropshire, situated near the west bank of the River Severn, about 300 yards north of the footbridge between Highley and Alveley in the Severn Valley.

Deansgate railway station

It is linked to Deansgate-Castlefield Metrolink station and the Manchester Central Complex (both previously called G-Mex) by a footbridge built in 1985, while Deansgate Locks, the Great Northern Warehouse and the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester are nearby.

Dietmar Feichtinger

He designed the Simone-de-Beauvoir footbridge in Paris, exceptional 190 m free-span in innovating the new combined structure, won the European competition for the Mont Saint-Michel pedestrian causeway bridge and the Three Countries Bridge the longest arch footbridge in the world linking France and Germany over the Rhine(inaugurated 30 June 2007).

Dulwich Wood

There is also an entrance by the footbridge on Cox's Walk, off Dulwich Common.

East Lancashire Railway 1844–59

In the end the ELR won its bid, but had to landscape its embankment (which later became the dividing line between Avenham and Miller Parks), make an ornamental arch for carriages and pedestrians crossing under the railway, and build a footbridge on the river viaduct.

Fort Edmonton Footbridge

The Fort Edmonton Footbridge is a pedestrian bridge that crosses the North Saskatchewan River in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Grandpont Bridge

Grandpont Bridge is a footbridge across the River Thames near the centre of Oxford, England.

Halton Railway

The majority of the track has since been removed, including the original bridge over the Grand Union Canal which was replaced by a modern footbridge, however much of the line is designated a permissive footpath.

Hole-in-the-Wall, Herefordshire

It is some five miles to the north of the town of Ross-on-Wye and part of the parish of Foy — the village of Foy, a mile to the west, is accessible by a footbridge over the Wye, built in 1919 by David Rowell & Co..

Hove railway station

The original station building, dating from the station's opening in 1865, is on the south side of the line and to the east of the present ticket office and concourse, being separated from this by a long footbridge (a public right of way) linking the residential roads of Goldstone Villas and Hove Park Villas.

Jamaal Magloire

In the early morning hours of June 23, 2001, Magloire's half-brother, 19-year-old Justin Sheppard, was shot and killed on the footbridge that spans the ravine around Rosedale Valley Road between Bloor Street East and Glen Road near Sherbourne subway station in Toronto.

Kralupy nad Vltavou

Three bridges across the Vltava River are in the town - Masaryk Bridge (a highway bridge built in 1920s), a footbridge with bicycle lane (built in 1990s) and a railway bridge.

Minneapolis Sculpture Garden

A pedestrian bridge, the Irene Hixon Whitney Bridge (1987), designed by Siah Armajani now crosses I-94, once again connecting the sculpture garden to Loring Park.

North Llanrwst railway station

The village of Trefriw (noted for its spa, first used by the Romans), is still served by the station by way of the Gower suspension footbridge over the River Conwy, a rural walk of about one mile.

Oxford railway station

A new covered footbridge would also be built over Botley Road to link the station building with the new platform, replacing the existing footbridge to the car park.

Petone Railway Station

Pedestrian access between the two side platforms is by a subway to the south or a footbridge to the north (the footbridge also crosses State Highway 2 to Pito-one Road).

Royal Victoria Dock Bridge

The Royal Victoria Dock Bridge is a signature high-level footbridge crossing the Royal Victoria Dock in the Docklands area of east London designed by London-based architects and designers Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands.

Saint Alkmund's Way Footbridge

In 2007 Derby City Council demolished and rebuilt the footbridge over St Alkmund’s Way to link the city centre with St Mary’s Church.

Śródka, Poznań

Since 7 December 2007 Śródka has also been linked with Ostrów Tumski by a footbridge ("Bishop Jordan's Bridge", Most biskupa Jordana), constructed from the former main span of the now reconstructed St. Roch road bridge which crosses the Warta further south.

St Austell railway station

The original bridge survived for almost 150 years; it was extended when the extra line was laid in 1931 to the new goods yard, but both sections have now been replaced by Network Rail's prototype modular fibre reinforced polymer footbridge.

Stressed ribbon bridge

The concrete segment stressed ribbon footbridge shown below carries pedestrians, bicyclists, and pipelines across the Rogue River at Grants Pass, Oregon.

Tramlink

The footbridge has been re-erected at Corfe Castle station on the Swanage Railway (although some evidence suggests that this was a similar footbridge removed from the site of Merton Park Railway Station).

Wakerley

Forming part of the district of East Northamptonshire, Wakerley is close to, and south of, the River Welland that forms the boundary with Rutland; its nearest neighbour, Barrowden, is in that county and accessible by a footbridge.

Wetheral

The Newcastle to Carlisle Railway has a station here at the west end of Corby Bridge (popularly known as 'Wetheral Viaduct') over the Eden which acts also as a footbridge connecting with Great Corby.

Whincup

The Cumberland Quarter Sessions (Coroner's Inquests) in 1762 looked into the death of Elizabeth Benson, aged 30, who died walking from Whincop in Birker to Boot in Eskdale, when she tried to ford Birker Beck at the site of a footbridge which had been destroyed by earlier floods, and was swept into the River Esk and drowned.


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