Widnes, The Bridges c.1961
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W97017
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Beside the railway viaduct is the suspension road bridge, which opened in 1961. Behind it, constructed in 1905, is the transporter bridge: vehicles and passengers crossed on a suspended platform which was dragged back and forth above the river. It was immortalised in Stanley Holloway's narration of Marriott Edgar's 1933 monologue poem, 'The Runcorn Ferry' ('tuppence per person per trip').
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