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The bridge's central section was, ironically, demolished by the Wehrmacht during the German occupation of World War II to allow for the free movement of its vehicles.
Here the retreating Ottoman and German rearguard had blown up the bridge's central arch which was repaired in five hours by Sappers attached to the Australian Mounted Division.
The slow decline of the bridge's central role began in 1754: " Starting in 1754, the first year of the vogue, the madness of the boulevards, it was no longer the thing to talk about the Cours Champs-Elysées, and still less
It is 13, 290 m ( 8. 25 mi ) long – 8, 836 m ( 5. 49 miles ) over water and the bridge's central span is 72 m ( 236. 22 ft ) high in order to allow the passage of hundreds of ships entering and leaving the bay every month.
He accurately described the bridge's length and the central arches being of greater height than the rest.
The bridge's overall length is 1054. 7 feet ( 321. 47 m ), with a central span of 400 feet ( 122 m ).
The bridge's central suspension section is made of Japanese steel.
During the widening works the opportunity was also taken to lower slightly the roadbed at the centre of the bridge and raise the access ramps, reducing the humpbacked nature of the bridge's central section.
The bridge's two close approach spans are Warren trusses placed below deck level, while its central span is a Pratt truss placed above deck level to allow greater clearance height for ships passing underneath.
The central truss is hidden when crossing the bridge in either direction by vertical extensions of the bridge's masonry piers into imposing concrete towers, connected by overhead galleries, which are embellished with architectural and sculptural details that create a torch-like entrance of pylons.
These columns support the bridge's five spans: a central span of, two flanking spans of each and two smaller spans of at each end passing over roadways.
Although the Lake Illawarra was capable of passing through the bridge's central navigation span, the captain attempted to pass through one of the eastern spans.

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There were also occasional mistakes, such as characters appearing on screen who were elsewhere, or a character supposed to appear on the bridge's main viewing screen, but then appeared in front, indicating bad ordering of animation plates.
In order to speed the process of rebuilding, the main body of the bridge was moved outside of the previous bridge's debris area.
The main strung cables are in diameter and each carries 13, 800 tonnes of the bridge's load by suspending 11, 618 diameter high tensile wires.
It is expected to integrated local tourism resources and the bridge's main body will have the largest span in the world when completed.
In 1986, McCarthy parlayed the idea to illuminate the main cables of Vancouver's Lions Gate Bridge and arranged private-sector sponsorship by the Guinness family, the bridge's builders and original owners.
As a result, the main bridge deck was replaced in 2000 and 2001 – the first time a suspension bridge's deck had been replaced.
The bridge's main cantilever centre span was, at the time of construction, the longest in Canada and the fourth longest in the world.
The new bridge's main span is 50 % wider than the old bridge.
The bridge's main span is long.
* A hanger is a vertical cable or rod connecting the roadway of a suspension bridge to the bridge's main cable or arch
Today, the bridge's main span is 625 feet ( 190 meters ) in length, making it rather small by modern standards.
The bridge's main spans are pin-connected Pennsylvania through truss spans.
The bridge's main span, the length of road deck between its two main towers ( pylons ), measures.
The road's modern successor, the A5, now bypasses Shrewsbury and the bridge's main role today is to connect the centre of Shrewsbury with the Belle Vue and Abbey Foregate areas of the town.

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That bridge's life was short lived and by the summer of 1886 the Beemer Times reported the building of an iron bridge, a Pratt truss with a span of 150 feet.
The new bridge features a " flyover " span tall enough for sailboats to pass under, replacing the old bridge's bascule drawbridge span.
The bridge's center spans over the river itself were replaced by a large single span in the 1920s.
In response to the bridge's popularity as a method of demise for the depressed, the state of Florida installed six crisis hotline phones along the center span in 1999, and began 24-hour patrols.
" The bridge's swing span, rotating on a rim-bearing system of 96 rollers, allows tall vessels to pass on the Norwalk River ," according to a Web page about the bridge.
In the event of a power outage, the bridge's swing span could still be turned, using a 165-hp, four-cylinder back-up generator to power the electric motors.
The project involved extensive work on the cantilever span and its approaches that included replacing the bridge's structural steel, rebuilding the piers that support the structure, and reconstructing the bridge deck.
The bridge was built in 1989 and is named for Homer More Hadley, who designed the bridge's companion span, the Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge.
After determining the level of corrosion compromised the bridge's structural integrity beyond repair, INDOT decided to permanently close and eventually demolish the span.
A broken rail joint on one pair of the bridge's movable rails at each end of the span caused a track misalignment, while still making electrical contact with the landward rails ; thus signals were clear, derails closed, and a fault indication was not displayed.
The bridge features two 90 metre ( 295. 2 ft ) high silver towers, situated on either side of the roadway at the midpoint of the bridge's span.
The dramatic film of the bridge's collapse, as a twisting motion added to the stress of longitudinal waves along the span, is still shown to engineering, architecture, and physics students as a good example of torsional flutter gone awry.
The bridge's span is long and has a width of, with a total of 53 arches in its span.

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A bridge's structural efficiency is the ratio of load carried to bridge weight, given a specific set of material types.
The bridge's destruction at Ragnarök by the forces of Muspell is foretold.
This shift to the adjacent bridge is required because the bass bridge's fourth string G is the start of the lower tetrachord of the G scale.
* The 00. 0 kilometre point is located over the River Seine, upstream of the Porte de Bercy, at the bridge's expansion joints.
* Vitischanze-old time defence station at the north west point of the old city, has the only undestroyed bridge in Europe with a so called defence walk below the bridge's surface walk, faculty of the University of Applied Science of Osnabrück is installed within the Vitischanze, nearby a parking house called Vitischanze.
The bridge's WGCB Number is 38-36-04.
The bridge's WGCB Number is 38-36-12.
The bridge's WGCB Number is 38-36-26.
The bridge's WGCB Number is 38-36-33.
The bridge's WGCB Number is 38-36-28.
The bridge's WGCB Number is 38-36-21.
The bridge's WGCB Number is 38-36-06.
The bridge's WGCB Number is 38-36-03.
The bridge's WGCB Number is 38-36-16.
The bridge's WGCB Number is 38-36-30.
The bridge's World Guide to Covered Bridges Number is 38-36-37.
The bridge's WGCB Number is 38-36-20.
The bridge's WGCB Number is 38-36-23.
The bridge's WGCB Number is 38-36-22.
The bridge's deck is made from oak planks.
The bridge's WGCB Number is 38-15-22 / 38-36-41.
The bridge's WGCB Number is 38-36-05.
The bridge's WGCB Number is 38-36-14.
The bridge's WGCB Number is 38-36-18.

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