LNER Class 800 800111 Azuma service to Edinburgh departing Newcastle Central passing Newcastle Castle. The East Coast railway line from London Kings Cross to Edinburgh Waverley passes within a few feet of this medieval castle.
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The Tyne Bridge is a through arch bridge, linking Newcastle upon Tyne and Gateshead.
The bridge was designed by the engineering firm Mott, Hay and Anderson,who later designed the Forth Road Bridge, and was built by Dorman Long and Co. of Middlesbrough.
The bridge was officially opened on 10 October 1928 by King George V and has since become a defining symbol of Tyneside.
This photograph was taken from the Tyne Swing Bridge.
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The Newcastle High Level Bridge is a road and railway bridge spanning the River Tyne between Newcastle upon Tyne and Gateshead.
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The High Level Bridge is considered the most notable historical engineering work in the city. It was constructed by the Hawks family from 5,050 tons of iron.
George Hawks, Mayor of Gateshead, drove in the last key of the structure on 7 June 1849, and the bridge was officially opened by Queen Victoria later that year.
The bridge was designed by Robert Stephenson to form a rail link towards Scotland as part of the development of the English railway network; a carriageway for road vehicles and pedestrians was incorporated to generate additional revenue. The main structural elements are tied cast-iron arches.
Notwithstanding the considerable increase in the weight of railway vehicles since it was designed, it continues to carry rail traffic, although the King Edward bridge nearby was opened in 1906 to ease congestion. The roadway is also still in use, although with a weight restriction. It is a Grade I listed structure.
The lower road crossing was tolled until 1937 with the LNER being granted £160,000 compensation when toll charges were withdrawn.
Major restoration work was undertaken in 2005 when traffic became limited to southbound buses and taxis only with a narrowed carriageway to protect the structure.
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View of the Tyne Swing Bridge which links Gateshead to Newcastle across the River Tyne.
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The Swing Bridge stands on the site of the Old Tyne Bridges of 1270 and 1781, and probably of the Roman Pons Aelius.
The previous bridge on the site was demolished in 1868 to enable larger ships to move upstream to William Armstrong's works.
The hydraulic Swing Bridge was designed and paid for by Armstrong, with work beginning in 1873. It was first used for road traffic on 15 June 1876 and opened for river traffic on 17 July 1876.
At the time of construction it was the largest swing bridge ever built. The construction cost was £240,000.
The hydraulic power still used to move the bridge is today derived from electrically driven pumps. These feed a hydraulic accumulator sunk into a 60 ft (18 m) shaft below the bridge; the water is then released under pressure which runs the machinery to turn the bridge. The mechanism used for this is still the same machinery originally installed by Armstrong
It has an 281 ft (85.6 m) cantilevered span with a central axis of rotation able to move through 360° to allow vessels to pass on either side of it.
The busiest year of operation was 1924 when the bridge was rotated 6,000 times unlike current use where it is only required to turn occasionally to allow yachts and pleasure craft to pass by and on the first Wednesday of each month as a maintenance exercise.
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The Black Gate at Newcastle Castle, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Newcastle Castle is a medieval fortification in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, built on the site of the fortress that gave the City of Newcastle its name.
The most prominent remaining structures on the site are the Castle Keep , the castle's main fortified stone tower, and the Black Gate, its fortified gatehouse.
Use of the site for defensive purposes dates from Roman times, when it housed a fort and settlement called Pons Aelius (meaning 'Bridge of Hadrian'), guarding a bridge over the River Tyne.
Robert Curthose, eldest son of William the Conqueror, in 1080 built a wooden motte and bailey style castle on the site of the Roman fort.
Curthose built this 'New Castle upon Tyne' after he returned south from a campaign against Malcolm III of Scotland. Henry II built the stone Castle Keep between 1172 and 1177 on the site of Curthose's castle. Henry III added the Black Gate between 1247 and 1250.
Nothing remains of the Roman fort or the original motte and bailey castle. The Keep is a Grade I listed building, and a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
The Castle Keep and Black Gate pre-date the construction of the Newcastle town wall, construction of which started around 1265, and did not include it. The site of the keep is in the centre of Newcastle and lies to the east of Newcastle station. The 75-foot (23 m) gap between the keep and the gatehouse is almost entirely filled by the railway viaduct that carries the East Coast Main Line from Newcastle to Scotland.
The keep and Black Gate are now managed by the Old Newcastle Project under the Heart of the City Partnership as one combined visitor attraction, "Newcastle Castle".
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