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Description: | This was formally opened by King Edward VII in July 1906 but was not used by traffic until 1 Oct 1906. It meant a much needed second railway bridge across the Tyne with an additional advantage – trains were now able to travel from South to North without reversing. The bridge was commissioned by the North Eastern Railway and cost over five hundred thousand pounds. The engineer was Charles Harrison with work being carried out by the Cleveland Bridge & Engineering Company. The King requested that the bridge be named after him – until that point it had been known as ‘The New High Level Bridge’. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.asaplive.com/Lco/Lco.cfm?ccs=629&cs=2674&Preview=1 | Publisher: | Gateshead Council | Rights holder: | Gateshead Council | Subjects: | Bridges Tyne Riverside | Temporal: | name=Edwardian; start=1901; end=1910; | Source: | iSee Gateshead | Creator: | Unknown | Identifier: | http://isee.gateshead.gov.uk/detail.php?... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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