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The Great Train Robbery was the robbery of £2.3 million (about £38 million today) from a Royal Mail train heading from Glasgow to London on the West Coast Main Line in the early hours of 8 August 1963 at Bridego Railway Bridge, Ledburn, near Mentmore in Buckinghamshire, England. After tampering with the lineside signals to bring the train to a halt, a gang...
If your visiting Tasmania, Australia between December and January then you must see the lavender fields at Bridestowe Lavender Estate. At over 260 acres, the farm is the largest lavender farm in the southern hemisphere. The fields are located 50km from Launceston past Lilydale in Tasmania’s North East.
The estate is open all year round and is a great place to v...
The Millau Viaduct is a cable-stayed road-bridge that spans the valley of the river Tarn near Millau in southern France. Designed by the French structural engineer Michel Virlogeux and British architect Norman Foster, it is the tallest bridge in the world, with one mast's summit at 343.0 metres (1,125 ft). The bridge received the 2006 IABSE Outstanding Structure Award...
The Bridge at Thirteenth Street, also known as the Wooden Bridge, is a historic bridge in St. Francisville, Illinois that carries Thirteenth Street across a former railroad right-of way. The bridge was built in 1909 as a safer crossing of the railroad; at the time, the railroad was operated by the Cairo, Vincennes and Chicago Railway, a division of the Cleveland, Cinc...
Bridge House was built over Stock Ghyll more than 300 years ago, probably as a summer house and apple store for Ambleside Hall. It was purchased by local people in 1926 and given to the National Trust. Listed Grade I, the building is now used as an information centre for the National Trust, and is part of the Trust's Windermere and Troutbeck property. Bridge house was...
Bridge L-158 is a disused railroad bridge over Muscoot Reservoir near Goldens Bridge, New York, United States. Built to carry New York Central Railroad traffic over Rondout Creek near Kingston, it was moved to its current location in 1904.
In 1960 it was taken out of service and the tracks removed. It is the only remaining double-intersection Whipple truss railroad br...
Bridge of Balgie is a hamlet in Glen Lyon (Perth & Kinross, Scotland) and lies at the junction between the east–west single track road along the foot of the glen from Fortingall to Loch Lyon and the unclassified mountain road running over the western shoulder of Ben Lawers to the A827 near Milton Morenish on the shores of Loch Tay. Although it only comprises...
Bridge of Gran Arvou is an aqueduct-bridge in the frazione Porossan of Aosta, north-western Italy. It span the Rû Prévôt irrigation canal, and includes a large corridor covered by flagstones. Another aqueduct-bridge, the Petit Arvou, is located a few meters downstream.
In the late 13th-early 14th century, there was a series of programs aiming to im...
The Bridge of Sighs (Ponte dei Sospiri) is a bridge in Venice, northern Italy . The enclosed bridge is made of white limestone and has windows with stone bars. It passes over the Rio di Palazzo and connects the old prisons to the interrogation rooms in the Doge's Palace. It was designed by Antoni Contino (whose uncle Antonio da Ponte had designed the Rialto Bridge), a...
Hertford Bridge, often called the Bridge of Sighs, is a skyway joining two parts of Hertford College over New College Lane in Oxford, England. Its distinctive design makes it a city landmark.
The bridge is often referred to as the Bridge of Sighs because of its supposed similarity to the better known Bridge of Sighs in Venice.
There is a false legend saying that many ...
Ellsworth and Emery Kolb named the Bridge of Sighs on their 1911-1912 river trip. He may have named the bridge after one by the same name in Italy. The easiest way to see this bridge is from river level. This is one of the few Grand Canyon arches visible from the river.
Located at Colorado River Mile 35.7: The "Bridge of Sighs" and three large alcoves in the Redwall L...
The Bridge of the Americas (Spanish:Puente de las Américas; originally known as the Thatcher Ferry Bridge) is a road bridge in Panama, which spans the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal. Completed in 1962, at a cost of US$20 million, it was the only non-swinging bridge (there are two other bridges, one at the Miraflores locks and one at the Gatun locks) conne...
The Bridge of the Gods is a steel truss cantilever bridge that spans the Columbia River between Cascade Locks, Oregon and Washington state near North Bonneville. It is approximately 40 miles (64 kilometers) east of Portland, Oregon and 4 miles (6.4 km) upriver from the Bonneville Dam. It is a toll bridge operated by the Port of Cascade Locks.
The bridge was completed ...
The Bridge of Toledo (Spanish: Puente de Toledo) is a bridge located in Madrid, Spain. It was built in a Baroque style between 1718 and 1732 by architect Pedro de Ribera and spans the Manzanares River, linking the Pyramids roundabout on the east bank with Marqués de Vadillo Square on the west bank.
It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1956.
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The Bridge on the Neretva is the memorial bridge on the Neretva river, in Jablanica, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Bridge is part of the Memorial of the Battle on the Neretva dedicated to the famous World War II battle, fought between Yugoslav partisans and Axis forces, as part of the Fourth Enemy Offensive in February–March 1943. The battle is also known as the "Batt...
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