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Meccano bridge at 12" to the foot scale

Dieses Thema im Forum 'Everything Else Heritage' wurde von richards gestartet, 10 April 2013.

  1. richards

    richards Part of the furniture

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    Brilliant!!

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    from Radcliffe Canal | Oopart

    The bridge opened officially last week at Nob End on the Manchester, Bolton & Bury Canal. More info here:

    Richard
     
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    awesome!
     
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    Interesting. Could this be a solution for some bridges on our heritage railways. Bridging the Gap on the GCR with Meccano might be taking the concept a bit too far though.
     
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    richards Part of the furniture

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    But then you'd need some giant Brio trains to run over them.

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    Ummmm not really sure on what to say except oh my god, that is brilliant never have seen anything like it
     
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    Do you think they might make the picnic benches available for sale? I bet they'd sell!
     
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    They would sell at such a huge cost that a major insurance would be needed to be taken out in case it was stolen
     
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    Looking at the one in the picture, it looks like the feet are embedded in the ground - on concrete blocks perhaps? The most over-engineered picnic bench in the world, but it won't be going far...
     
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  10. ADB968008

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    How very cool is that, as a kid I cycled over the original bridge almost daily as my school was around the corner !
    the house in the background used to be a tea room.

    Somewhere around the back of my parents garage is a whole bunch of excavated stuff, including the end of a barge, recovered during a school "dig" 25+ years ago from that area... Took me hours with help to drag it home...my mother wanted to bin it, but couldn't lift it.

    personally I wouldn't give the seating area long though, kids today are a step or two down from when I was a kid.

    nice to see the canal being developed, as a kid it was always abandoned or filled in. (Not far from there is the remains of a crane, and opposite way ends at a point the canal embankment collapsed.

    and down the hill is the bad lands of Prestolee... Bad kids down there :)
     
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    Didn't realise that the Meccano bridge which I heard about last year (see earlier posts) was actually on a disused canal which is hopefully being restored. Nice little video appeared on BBC news today:
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-28260265

    The argument for restoration seems very strong, with both visitors and property investment being drawn to the waterside. Shame that steam railways don't encourage property development alongside - probably, quite the opposite!

    Richard
     
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