Route 35 crosses into Brielle, Monmouth County, immediately passing over the main channel of the Manasquan River on a drawbridge.

The ships ride here so close, and as it were, keeping up one another, with their head-fasts on shore, that for half a mile together, they go cross the stream with their bolsprits over the land, their bowes, or heads, touching the very wharf ; so that one may walk from ship to ship as on a floating bridge, all along by the shore-side: The key reaching from the drawbridge almost to the south-gate, is so spacious and wide, that in some places ' tis near one hundred yards from the houses to the wharf.

* Maryland Route 731 leads straight into the center of town, meeting a dead end where the old drawbridge span over the Nanticoke River used to be.

This was flanked by two half-drum towers and had a drawbridge over a moat deep.

There was originally a drawbridge over the moat in the north east.

When first built, the barbican was reached over a drawbridge and a masonry ramp that came up sharply from the town below ; the modern path cuts east along the outside of the walls.

This projecting spur was fronted by an earth ramp called a talus, and was entered via a drawbridge over a ditch.

The cook chastised the spirit for this behaviour, so Hodeken threw him over the drawbridge into the moat.

As a result of a bridge replacement over the Grassy Sound, Route 147 was realigned off its former drawbridge, and the former alignment became Cape May County Route 665.

The fortification in front of the St. Michael's gate was closed off by a drawbridge over a moat.

At the show's conclusion, Friendly would put his miniature furniture away and his large, kindly hand would wave goodbye as the camera would zoom out and the castle's drawbridge would be raised ; as a silvery moon with a smiling face rose into the sky a cow would jump over it.

An observation deck is provided near the drawbridge that carries State Road 3 over the Haulover Canal, in the northern part of the refuge, since manatees frequently congregate there.

It turned north along the east bank of the Mobile River, crossing the river into Plateau, Alabama, over the Cochrane Bridge ( removed ), another old drawbridge where the current Cochrane – Africatown USA Bridge is now located.

In the 1980s, the existing drawbridge over the Choctawhatchee Bay was replaced with a concrete span with a higher clearance.

Plum Island is accessed by one road running from Newburyport to the north of the island on a causeway and drawbridge over the Plum Island River.

By the early 1980s, the southern approach to the Key Bridge was dualized, with a second roadway constructed along with a second drawbridge over Curtis Creek.

A short distance later, the road comes to an interchange with the New Jersey Turnpike ( Interstate 95 ) and Doremus Avenue before crossing over the Passaic River on a drawbridge.

In Häusser's original project from the first Christiansborg, the two wings of the palace were linked by a gatehouse at the Frederiksholm Canal end, and a drawbridge lead over the canal.

The gateway was originally approached by a drawbridge over a dry moat, but these were removed with all the other outworks in the 1880s.

Plans also were underway for a drawbridge over Curtis Creek to connect Hawkins Point to Sollers Point.

Other structures along the thruway include a dual-span drawbridge over Curtis Creek and two parallel bridge structures that carry traffic over Bear Creek, near the former Bethlehem Steel Sparrows Point plant, this portion of the project not being fully complete until the late 1990s.

Another early enhancement was the construction of a protective barbican over the city side of the drawbridge.

In the northernmost corner of the castle there was a sally port beneath a large tower and a drawbridge over the ditch outside the wall.

The bridge, since replaced by a modern span, was the first cantilevered counter-weight bascule drawbridge constructed west of the Mississippi River.

Madisonville's colorful Dock ( maritime ) | waterfront, viewed here looking north from the drawbridge on LA 22, features outdoor dining along the Tchefuncte River estuary.

The Highlands-Sea Bright Bridge, a drawbridge built in 1932, connected Highlands in the west to Sea Bright, New Jersey in the east, across the Shrewsbury River.

The Tacony-Palmyra Bridge is a drawbridge designed by Ralph Modjeski, who also engineered the Ben Franklin Bridge and the Manhattan Bridge, that opened to traffic in 1929, replacing a ferry service across the Delaware River.

After intersecting the Bergen Turnpike at the modified Little Ferry Circle, which US 46 runs through, the route crosses the Hackensack River into Ridgefield Park on a drawbridge.

Once Captain Burelson learned that a group was on their way to " take care of Leibowitz ," he raised the drawbridge across the Tennessee River, keeping them out of Decatur.

Canada's worst railway accident based on loss of life happened on the GTR, occurring on June 28, 1864, when a passenger train operating between Lévis and Montreal missed a signal for an open drawbridge on the Richelieu River near the present-day town of Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, plunging onto a passing barge and killing 99 German immigrants.

It crossed Mobile Bay via several narrow bridges, including the Admiral Raphael Semmes Bridge, a drawbridge spanning the Tensaw River.

The only vehicular crossing of the York River is the George P. Coleman Bridge, a swing-type drawbridge which carries U. S. Highway 17 between Yorktown and Gloucester Point.

The Mystic River Bascule Bridge is a bascule bridge, a type of drawbridge with counterweights, that spans the Mystic River in Mystic, Connecticut in the United States.

The inventors of the hydro-pneumatic system moved forward to an electro-pneumatic system in 1891 and this system, best identified with the Union Switch & Signal Company ( now a unit of Ansaldo STS, headquartered in Genoa, Italy ), was first installed on the Chicago and Northern Pacific Railroad at its drawbridge across the Chicago River.

The New River Tunnel, also known as the Henry E. Kinney Tunnel, is one of three underwater road tunnels in Florida ( the other two are in Walt Disney World ), that replaced the Federal Aid Highway Bridge, a drawbridge opened on August 26, 1926 and closed in 1958.

Past this intersection, the road crosses the Hackensack River on a drawbridge and enters Jersey City.

The Gilmerton Bridge, a new drawbridge, was built to cross the southern branch of the Elizabeth River, a location which provides access to port facilities and is a portion of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway.

Connecting to Northeast Philadelphia are the Betsy Ross Bridge, a six-lane bridge linking the Bridesburg neighborhood of Philadelphia with Pennsauken, New Jersey, and the Tacony – Palmyra Bridge, a three-lane drawbridge spanning the Delaware River between the Tacony neighborhood of Philadelphia and Palmyra, New Jersey.

I-675 is also a state trunkline highway that provided a bypass of the former drawbridge carrying I-75 and US Highway 23 ( US 23 ) across the Saginaw River.

The western terminus of M-104 is at US 31 in Ferrysburg at the north end of the drawbridge spanning the Grand River north of Grand Haven.

At one and the same time, she was within it but still searching for the drawbridge that would give her entry.

A wall was built ( nowadays known as Charles V Wall ); also a ditch by the wall of the town and a drawbridge at the Landport ( Puerta de Tierra ).

Often the entrance was protected by a lifting bridge, a drawbridge or a timber gate tower.

Originally a women's dormitory, the building was made with a " drawbridge " to symbolically keep men out.

At the southern end of the bridge was a turreted gatehouse, Les Tourelles, which stood in the river, connected by a drawbridge to the southern bank.

A bastion, a large earthwork projecting eastwards from the Bastille, was built to provide additional protective fire for the Bastille and the Arsenal ; the bastion was reached from the fortress across a stone abutment using a connecting drawbridge that was installed in the Bastille's Comté tower.

A drawbridge was historically the hinged bridge at a castle's gates providing entry across a defensive moat for those occupying the castle.

Raising the drawbridge to a vertical position was therefore one means by which intruders could be shut out of the castle.

In the 14th century, it was fortified and reinforced with a drawbridge, and houses were built on the piers.

Horace Walpole wrote that Hogarth had run a great risk to go there since the peace of Aix-la-Chapelle, he went to France, and was so imprudent as to be taking a sketch of the drawbridge at Calais.

The narrow steel drawbridge was finally replaced in 1980.

The two were connected by a drawbridge until 1942, when that was destroyed by a freighter that struck it.

A drawbridge was built there, the only access to the island by road.

The drawbridge outside the gatehouse was replaced with the current permanent bridge between 1524 – 47 ; by this time a half-moon defensive structure had been built in stone to defend it.

The castle gate behind the drawbridge is the only access to the Castle, and it has remained exactly as it was throughout the centuries.

During the war and for some period afterwards, the gap was covered by a drawbridge.

It was built from " 100, 000 pieces of real Meccano ", taking 1, 100 hours, and consisted of a 9 metre ( 29. 5 ft ) " swing bridge " section, and a 12 metre ( 39. 4 ft ) " drawbridge " section.

At that time it was the only entrance to be made, across a lowered drawbridge.

Until the mid 18th century there was a ferry between Sandwich and the island ; in 1755 a wooden drawbridge was built, and the ferry was closed.