Middlesbrough Transporter Bridge

Opened in 1911,this is the world's largest operation transporter bridge in which vehicles and pedestrians stay still while the bridge moves them - in this case 160ft (48.7m) above the River Tees from Middlesbrough to Port Clarence. In recent years the bridge became familiar to millions of viewers of the Auf Wiedersehen Pet television series with a fictional storyline about the 851ft (259.3m) structure being dismantled and moved to Arizona.

The bridge is open seven days a week with departures every 15 minutes. It does not operate in poor visibility or high winds.

A vistor centre on its south approach tells the Transporter Bridge story.

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