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Newcastle's Swing Bridge goes five years without swinging as 2026 anniversary deadline looms

Tyneside’s famous Swing Bridge has now gone more than five years without being able to swing. Long-standing worries about the future of the bridge remain, with the mechanism that allows it to rotate ...
Evening Chronicle

See the workings of the Swing Bridge, as we go behind the scenes of Newcastle's engineering marvel

It may be red and white, but the Swing Bridge is as much a symbol of Newcastle as the more famous structure slightly down river. Though it is the Tyne Bridge which often hogs the limelight, the Swing ...
Evening Chronicle

Newcastle and Gateshead's iconic Swing Bridge across the River Tyne is 145

It's 145 years since the Swing Bridge, linking Newcastle and Gateshead across the River Tyne, opened to road traffic. There was no formal ceremony to mark the occasion, but the event on Thursday, June ...
The Conversation

Newcastle’s iconic Tyne Bridge: how it became a symbol of the city’s changing fortunes

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