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Middlesbrough Borough Council
All photographs of this railway in date order.
![Middlesbrough's famous transporter bridge on 24th June 2017, when it was unfortunately out of service awaiting repairs. By one of those strange coincidences my first visit to this location was eight years to the day that I had visited its sister bridge at Rochefort in France [See image 24425]. The sturdy cables dropping vertically from the ends of the bridge are anchored deep underground to hold the cantilevered deck in tension.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 24/06/2017]](/images/59000/59948.jpg "Middlesbrough Transporter Bridge")
![There is a visitor centre at the Middlesbrough Transporter Bridge from where there are site tours. Operations in the winding room are explained and there is an opportunity to travel to the top of the bridge in a lift and walk on the deck. The bridge is now operated by computer and the cab on top of the gondola is effectively redundant. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 24/06/2017]](/images/60000/60007.jpg "Middlesbrough Transporter Bridge")
