#Transport for the North

[hoofpeet]

Qwhat if...

[libraryofva]

Recent Acquisition - Ephemera Collection

National Trailways. STOP AND LOOK. Lynchburg Va, Danville Va, Burlington NC, Charlottesville Va, Richmond Va, Washington DC, Durham NC

[scotianostra]

On March 4th 1890 The Forth Bridge was officially opened by The Prince of Wales.

[life-spire]

Canada (by Stephen Laurin)

See more of Canada | North America.

[carbone14]

Jeep Bantam BRC 40 tractant un canon antichar M3 de 37 mm au cours d'un test – Wadesboro – Caroline du Nord – Etats-Unis – Novembre 1941

©Library of Congress – LC-USW33-027847-ZC DLC

[aryburn-trains]

After dousing the red marker lights, Amtrak Downeaster Train 683 behind P42 197 will ready to run north to Portland after a 35-min. layover in Boston's North Station. Two MBTA trains flank Amtrak, and new F59s are on order to replace the aging F40s. MBTA reaches five destinations out of this depot, including Rockport, Mass. October 2012

[londonedge]

Bus shelter in North Kensington 

[hazel-of-sodor]

Presenting the Great Western Railway's 57xx pannier tank! Duck has appeared before, but was never quite finished, or given a proper release. Now he is here with 8 of his siblings.

[metro-north-official]

[usafphantom2]

HU009376 by manhhai Via Flickr: 2 November, 1965, Arizona, United States --- CF-5 Freedom Fighter aircraft refuel en route to Vietnam. --- Image by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS

[newvegascowboy]

There are also 3 people in this game that are realllyy excited to go back to the hub city to watch red awkwardly fail through a date, but we have to go on the world's longest sidequest first and its probably not going to happen for a real time month

[wetslug]

rural funeral home employees r insane but i think its because many are just the nephew or cousin of the owner and dont know what the fuck they r doing

[carbone14]

Jeep Bantam BRC 40 tractant un canon antichar M3 de 37 mm au cours d'un test – New River – Caroline du Nord – Etats-Unis – 1941

Photographe : U.S. Army Signal Corps

©Library of Congress - LC-USW33-027832-ZC

[aryburn-trains]

Amtrak Downeaster Cab Car #90213 at North Station, Boston, MA

Amtrak Downeaster Cab Car #90213 at North Station, Boston, MA.

Photographed by Peter B. Kingman, February 19, 2007.

[fussypaws]

ANYWAY. Daddy issues aside. I'm moving across the country to live with my partner in 6 days, far away from my dad and all my relatives <3 I'm so fucking scared lol but also excited to be away from all this and also to be with my partner again

[scotianostra]

On October 1st 1763 the contract to build Edinburgh’s North Bridge was signed.

Edinburgh in the 1700′s was a very different city to the one we know today. The city boundary was restricted to the dramatic crag and tail feature which swept eastwards from the castle. Up to 35,000 people inhabited a space under a mile long making Scotland’s capital one of the most densely populated urban areas in the world at that time. The overcrowded population were crammed into crumbling tenements, many of them up to fourteen storeys high in order to make the most of the limited space. Make no mistake, Edinburgh at this point in it’s history, was a skyscraper city, very few cities in the world had buildings the height of our capital!

Edinburgh’s nobility were often forced to accept the unthinkable and share dwellings with the lower classes. Change was not just desired, it was deemed an absolute necessity if the city was ever to move forward.

Plans to build a New Town to the north were discussed as early as the 1750s but without the means of connecting it with the rest of Edinburgh, it would be nothing more than a fanciful dream. Phase one required the draining of the ancient Nor’ Loch, a man-made stagnant body of water located in the area which we now term as Princes Street Gardens. Drainage began in 1759 and would continue up until the 1820s. Dry land at the east of the Nor’ Loch valley allowed for what was undoubtedly the most ambitious engineering project to have been built in the city at that point: An eleven-hundred foot long stone bridge. The North Bridge, as it would be named, enabled the New Town to become a reality. A brand new chapter in the city’s history was about to begin.

The foundation stone of architect William Mylne’s North Bridge was laid in October 1763 but it would be a further two years before any serious amount of progress was made. The magnificent multi-arched bridge first opened to pedestrians in 1769 to much fanfare and excitement. However, the cheers quickly died down in August of that year when a partial collapse claimed the lives of five people. Haste in construction and a poorly calculated estimate regarding the depth of the foundations were said to have been the primary cause. Rebuilding work demanded £18,000 (almost double the original cost of the project) and the city would have to wait until 1772 before the grand reopening.

The North Bridge consisted of three main arches and several smaller arches, many of them concealed, on either side. After the bridge’s final completion, building work on the first residences of the New Town would commence within five years. Edinburgh would go on to expand like never before as the world’s largest Georgian townscape began to take shape.

The much-anticipated bridge was only to last a little over a century. Redevelopment and expansion of Waverley train station was being held back by the narrow space available between the piers of the North Bridge. It was becoming obvious that a new link was needed. Construction of the current steel bridge that we know today was completed in 1897 at a cost of £81,000. The North British Railway Company contributed to a third of the cost.

There are now several bridges in the city but it is the North Bridge which is most visible. Today the bridge continues to play a vital role in dictating the ebb and flow of the city, much as it has done for the past 240 years and at the moment work is continuing on a major restoration after defects were discovered in 2014, the work which was to cost an estimated £22 million, but if you recall my pic of the mural a couple of weeks ago, I pointed out the project is way behind schedule and the costs are now standing at £32 million, the work however  will secure the bridge for many years to come for the future citizens and visitors to the capital to both enjoy and use.

Okay the pics from top to bottom, the old bridge circa  177, 1800, note nothing built on the North side, with the view straight through to Register House,  thenm, 1809, 1824, 1829 (x2), 1837, 1845, 1871, 1966,1970, 1977, 2012, 2020 and finally my own pic from  16th September this year.