Yes, I remember the revival of Auf Weidersen pet where they dismantled the bridge and rebuilt it in America. Two weeks after the finale, we all head to flamingos land and pass the Tees on the A19 and my brother said "Oh look, the Geordies bought the bridge back from America." The bus passengers laughed their heads off.

I'm always impressed with the gondola at the Newport bridge , but the old Widnes transporter bridge was the king monster 👹 bridge before it was demolished. The Middlesbrough bridge is the most elegant iconic bridge structure.

Don't worry, yours got mentioned in the Jay Foreman video about tower bridge.

The late actor Terry Scott, so often married on screen, but not in real life to the late actress June Whitfield, was doing a play at Billingham Forum - he went across the Middlesbrough Transporter Bridge, believing it to be a regular bridge in his car and drove it straight into the River Tees!

euan todd LOL I just got done typing out almost this exact comment before reading yours. Glad to see I'm not alone.

Falcrist You will never be alone. We will always be here for you.

euan todd This is an "amazing place" though. "and this has been a place, that is indeed amazing" ? It's hard to wax lyrical on that subject title, because it's just not as rythmic :/ Challenge issued: New outro requests.

TheActualNuttmegger Doh, read the title. I'm stupid, ignore all of that.

TheActualNuttmegger A Not-So-Good idea for an outro: "And that, is an amazing place"

Me too :D im from france

The guys in the movie: Good guy: Come on!!! Ahh yes I made it on! So long suckers! Bad guy: Oh no! The bridge has driven away!? Noooo come back!

Basically a Bucklebury Ferry chase scene

Mission Impossible 7

It'd be funnier if both cars make it on, and the two drivers just? Sit in their cars making faces at each other until it reaches the other side. Peak comedy imo.

Go Orioles

@Chris Green no I live there

Also it's not as dodgey as Newport

I wonder why Chrysler named their prestigious big sedan after such a place🤔

@@DrewLSsix I thought it was named after cigarettes 🤣🤣

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Stormfox It's not that much, actually! The number of wires, and their crossover arrangement -- plus the sheer weight of it -- mean it can operate in reasonable winds without swinging all that much. In gales, of course, it's locked to the side!

***** I guess I had to pay more attention in physics classes. :-D

***** I'd be curious to see how they were able to build that 100 years ago. What sort of lifting mechanics were use to hoist that steel so high. Seems quite ahead of its time.

LeskiStation This would be childs play in comparison to the great pyramids...

LeskiStation The Sydney Harbour Bridge was built in 1923, this is hardly anything compared to that.

+Andrew Bulman Sure, it's more famous, but then they moved it to the americas...

@@iainhewitt we still have it here?

@@iainhewitt I'm looking at it right now. Still here. Why would someone disassemble a practical bridge and sail it halfway across the world? I'm sure back in the day, we would have given them a good deal for a hardy bridge. The one in Sydney Harbour is a product of our craftsmanship.

@@kualajdm It was the plot of Auf Wiedersehen Pet

@@Kafeenuk yes based on what was going to happen to the Newport Transporter bridge way back.

Interesting. No need to worry, we Welsh are more than happy to acknowledge anything in the Basque Country, including that you are a country.

Ginger Biscuit Coincidence? I THINK NOT!

Ginger Biscuit This keeps happening to me!

Ginger Biscuit This phenomenon is called the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon (it's also commonly called the frequency illusion).

raumaan kidwai You're welcome.

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+Kim Philipp Möllgaard In what city do you live?

Top Gun I live in Flensburg, Germany, but the bridge is in Rendsburg, a bit further south.

I looked it up and they really do look pretty intimidating

Well, the Newport one is older and more iconic.

I'm from Middlesbrough but think the Newport one has by far the best gondola

In mother, father and unidentified Wales, Teeside and England bridges drive you

Mate everything happens in tees valley

Same here! Not Cardiff but in Monmouthshire, only place that I have been to that is in a Tom Scott video.

clankFilmstudios theres one in middlesbrough

Snakey866 Yes, I've been over it a few times

It's closed.

@@grummhd3020 Honestly. Search for Tees Transporter Bridge on Wikipedia. Now have plans to repair it and open it again. Parts were falling off, so the council had to close it.

I remember seeing the Runcorn Transporter Bridge from the train when travelling up to Liverpool to visit my grandparents. That would be back in the 40s and 50s.

*As in on KZfaq (not your KZfaq account)*

*not your channel, just overall on youtube*

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Cymru am byth!

chi beth sy'n ffrindiau

It's shut.

Esquire Chewington IV There was a long period in which he didn't upload videos so I assume he was filming then and is now releasing the videos.

Moctor port Clarence not boro

Moctor What's the half sunken ship nearby there for?

CallOfBrians Let's call it half and half? :)

kalcaron That's the Tuxedo Royale. Used to be a floating nightclub on the Tyne but it was moved down to Tesside and eventually abandoned.

Matthew Harrison (matthehat) you have the exact name as me sir.

OrangeAmphibian same brugh I used to be terrified to go over it

I mean I also live in Stockton and used to be terrified

Alii GG I was on a similar bridge in France. It was squeaking like crazy and I thought it would fall down into the river any second.

It's middlesbrough technically unless you count port Clarence as Stockton. The bridge next up river is called Newport bridge. Weird

I live In Northampton

One of the 'only' things?...... Just let that sink in for a while.

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I second that! You can look on Google and Wikipedia and easily find old photos of it. It was switched in 1929-30.

About twenty were built worldwide; five of those were in the UK. Newport and Tees still work, though the latter is closed for repairs at the moment. The longest was between Runcorn and Widnes, it was demolished in 1961 after bringing replaced by a fixed bridge. There were two close together in Warrington, the older was a small one with a very low maximum load, which was later used as a pipe bridge. The second one was larger, but while it still exists has been disused since 1964 and is in a derelict state. Both of these were private, they linked parts of a soap and chemical works on opposite sides of the river. The second one was very unusual in that it was originally built to carry railway wagons. We almost got a sixth one in the 1990s. A new high level footbridge was built in the old Royal Docks, designed so that it could later be converted to also function as a Transporter Bridge, but this was never done and it remains purely a footbridge, which is a pity. Buenos Aires actually had three of them, of which one survives.

There's one in Middlesbrough too

Alex Johnson technically it's Stockton-on-tees

Germany has a second much older one in a little Village ("Osten") between Cuxhaven and Stade/Buxtehude

Kombaiyashii It 's a stick with numbers on. That's how it works.

JustOneAsbesto ?

Hobbyloosii Ever seen the colloseum?

Hobbyloosii 100 years ago was 1915 we already had cars, airplanes and phonecalls

katinjegat Good point. What I actually meant was mechanical structures, not brick ones.

James Pawson (PS-- Actually, I do know why; it's because I read The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart when I was a child.)

+James Pawson 's not that great - really. The best places to visit are the caves and some of the mountains, but the even the tallest mountains in Wales are really quite insignificant compared to the Canadian Rockies.

ValleysOfRain Canadian Rockies are on the other side of the country from me, and the people there are dicks. At the end of the day, I have my mind made up to visit Wales-- though I might just end up drinking in a pub in Cardiff most of the time.

James Pawson Wales is on the opposite side of the Atlantic from you, and the people here are also dicks XD (I live here, I know what I'm talking about). But if you want to come here for some sight seeing, be my guest. Just don't get your hopes up too high, there really is very little here, believe me.