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Transporter Bridge
Newport’s Grade I listed Transporter Bridge is one of just seven working transporter
bridges worldwide, and an impressive monument to Edwardian engineering. At Newport,
the River Usk has the highest tidal range of any city in the world and, in 1906, a crossing
was needed that would not hamper the huge amount of shipping using the river; French
designer Ferdinand Arnodin provided the solution. The bridge provided the setting for
some scenes in the 1959 British crime drama
Tiger Bay
, starring Hayley Mills and her father
John Mills, and also featured in the television series
Being Human
.
Photo credit: Crown Copyright (2016) Visit Wales
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