The Acton swing bridge is a swing bridge spanning the River Weaver in the village of Acton Bridge in north Cheshire, England. First operated in 1933, it carries the A49 trunk road.
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A swingbridge (or swing span bridge) is a movable bridge that can be rotated horizontally around a vertical axis. It has as its primary structural support...
ActonBridge (formerly Acton) is a village and civil parish in Cheshire, England. Located within the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester on...
Cheshire Ring Canal Walk and Trent & Mersey Canal before crossing the Actonswingbridge over the Weaver Navigation. The 3-mile (4.8 km) £6 million Weaverham...
Bridges in the United Kingdom is a link page for significant road bridges or footbridges in the United Kingdom. Significant railway bridges are listed...
Dutton Horse Bridge is a timber twin-span footbridge across part of the Weaver navigation, near the villages of ActonBridge and Dutton in Cheshire, England...
manufactured by Hanna, Donald & Wilson of Paisley. Actonswingbridge is a symmetrical bowstring girder swingbridge, which was built in situ between 1931 and...
the scheme included the Barton Swing Aqueduct, the first swing aqueduct in the world, and a neighbouring swingbridge for road traffic at Barton, both...
a link from South Acton to Richmond by the London & South Western Railway (LSWR) in 1869. The line from Broad Street to Kew Bridge and Richmond was electrified...
university". The university's origins lie in Acton Technical College, which was split into two in 1957: Acton Technical College continued to cater for technicians...
engineer particularly associated with the design of bridges. Wex was born on 24 April 1922 in Acton, Middlesex, son of Julius Ernest Peter Wex, a German...
the heart grow fonder[a] Absolute power corrupts absolutely (John Dalberg-Acton, 1887)[a] Accidents will happen (in the best-regulated families)[a] Actions...
passing the eleven-plus exam, Townshend was enrolled at Acton County Grammar School. At Acton County, he was frequently bullied because he had a large...
Putney Bridge, Westminster Bridge, Datchet Bridge, Windsor Bridge and Sonning Bridge. Several central London road bridges were built in the 19th century...
service from South Ruislip and to High Wycombe via the Acton–Northolt line. It ceased when the Acton-Northolt line closed. When its London Marylebone terminus...
problem for another 4,000 to 10,000 years. A new feature was added in 1873 by Acton Smee Ayrton, then First Commissioner of Works and Public Buildings. The...
Bridge – a steel beam bridge, west of Tewkesbury Maisemore Bridge – carries the A417 and is a single masonry arch, dating back to 1230. Over Bridge –...
in 2016. Communities served by the GWML include West London (including Acton, Ealing, Hanwell, Southall, Hayes, Harlington and West Drayton); Iver; Langley;...
as a computer operator at the Elizabeth Arden cosmetics factory in North Acton, in northwest London, similar to the one he had in Bootle and with similarly...
episode of The King of Queens. He had a cameo appearance in the 2008 film Swing Vote, again playing himself. On January 11, 2010, Carlson and Neil Patel...
scrapped at Acton Works 2013. DM 3690 / L130 scrapped at Acton Works 2013. DM 3701 / L135 scrapped at Acton Works 2013. DM 3706 / 2 scrapped at Acton Works...
loan, were paid off. Where the Severn Railway Bridge (completed in 1879) passed over the canal, a swing section was constructed to avoid restricting headroom...
chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Ted Stevens. This bridge, nicknamed "The Bridge to Nowhere" by critics, was intended to replace the auto ferry...
List of crossings of the River Weaver north of Nantwich. Bridges which only access the island between original course and Weaver Navigation are not included...
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