NEW TYNE BRIDGE
UPEBED BY ROYALTY .'British Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. RUGBY, October 9. The King and Queen will break their joinney Irom Balmoral, where they have recently been in and will open to-morrow the now , Tvno bridge, which spans the river at Newcastle. Tho two existing railway bridges across tho Tyne at Newer, st,e weri also opened by royalty, one of them, built by tho great engineer Robert Stephenson, being opened by Queen Victoria in 1819. The new bridge ’is intended for road traffic only. It is a high level bridge of single span, 531 ft long, and is the largest steel arch yet constructed in this country, although a similar steel arch which ‘is now being built over Sydney Harbour is more than three times as long. The total expenditure on the bridge and its approaches exceeds ;Cl,000,000.
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Evening Star, Issue 19994, 11 October 1928, Page 4
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141NEW TYNE BRIDGE Evening Star, Issue 19994, 11 October 1928, Page 4
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