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===Historic bridges=== {| class="wikitable sortable" ! Bridge || Image ||width=10%| Location ||width=10%| Country || Completed ||width=7%| Span || Notes |- | [[Messrs. Crosfield’s Transporter Bridge]] {{coord|53|23|11.72|N|2|36|22.96|W|type:landmark|name=Messrs. Crosfield’s Transporter Bridge Transporter Bridge}} || || [[Warrington]] || {{flag|United Kingdom}} ||align="center"| 1905 || 76 m || demolished |- | [[Bizerta/Brest Transporter Bridge]] || [[File:Romance of Modern Mechanism 23.png|175px]] || [[Bizerta]] || {{flag|Tunisia}} ||align="center"| 1898 || 109 m || Moved to [[Brest, France]] in 1909, damaged 1944, demolished 1947. |- | [[Bordeaux Transporter Bridge]] || [[File:Vue du port de la Lune.jpg|175px]] || [[Bordeaux]] || {{flag|France}} ||align="center"| — || 400 m<br />(total) || Started 1910, but never completed. Demolished, 1942. |- | [[Devil's Dyke Transporter Bridge]] || || [[Devil's Dyke, Sussex|Devil's Dyke]] || {{flag|United Kingdom}} ||align="center"| 1894 || 198 m || Demolished, 1909.<ref name=":0">{{Citation |last=Tyrrell |first=Henry Grattan |title=Transporter Bridges |page=5 |year=1912 |url=https://archive.org/stream/transporterbridg00tyrrrich#page/n8/mode/1up |place=Toronto |publisher=[[University of Toronto]] Engineering Society |oclc=1157907052}}</ref><ref>{{Citation | last = Waddell | first = John | title = Bridge Engineering | place = New York | publisher = Wiley | year = 1916 | volume = I | page = 671 | url = https://archive.org/stream/bridgeengineerin01wadd#page/670/mode/2up}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=Cableway for passenger traffic at Brighton, England |journal=Engineering News-Record |volume=33 |issue=5 |date=31 January 1895 |pages=67–8 |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101061104293;view=1up;seq=93;size=175|access-date=4 December 2017}}</ref> |- | [[Kiel Transporter Bridge]] {{coord|54.321944|10.161944|type:landmark|format=dms|display=inline}} | [[File:Schwebefähre der Kaiserlichen Werft.jpg|175px]] || [[Kiel]] || {{flag|German Empire}} ||align="center"| 1910 || 128 m || Demolished, 1923. |- | [[Maarsserbrug]] || [[File:Maarsserbrug_met_transbordeur.jpg|left|175x175px]]|| [[Maarssen]] || {{flag|The Netherlands|1937}} ||align="center"| 1938 || 88 m || Fixed bridge for regular traffic with transporter for agricultural usages, removed in 1959. |- | [[Marseille Transporter Bridge]] {{coord|43.294184|5.363646|type:landmark|format=dms|display=inline}} | [[File:Pont Transbordeur-01.jpg|175px]] || [[Marseille]] || {{flag|France}} ||align="center"| 1905 || 165 m || Destroyed, 1944. |- | [[Nantes Transporter Bridge]] {{coord|47.208516|-1.565756|type:landmark|format=dms|display=inline}} | [[File:Nantes-pont-transbordeur-CP165LL.jpg|175px]] || [[Nantes]] || {{flag|France}} ||align="center"| 1903 || 141 m || Demolished, 1958. |- | [[Puente Transbordador Presidente Sáenz Peña]] || [[File:Puente Transbordador Sáenz Peña.jpg|175px]] || [[Buenos Aires]] || {{flag|Argentina}} ||align="center"| 1913 || || Demolished, 1965. |- | [[Puente Transbordador Presidente Urquiza]] || [[File:Transbordador Urquiza (MCBA, 1944).jpg|175px]] || [[Buenos Aires]] || {{flag|Argentina}} ||align="center"| 1915 || || Demolished, 1968. |- | [[Ponte Alexandrino de Alencar]] {{coord|-22.896171|-43.176345|type:landmark|format=dms|display=inline}} | || [[Rio de Janeiro]] || {{flag|Brazil}} ||align="center"| 1915 || 171 m || Demolished, 1935. |- | [[Rouen Transporter Bridge]] || [[File:Pont transbordeur de Rouen 2.jpg|175px]] || [[Rouen]] || {{flag|France}} ||align="center"| 1898 || 142 m || Destroyed, 1940. |- | [[Sky Ride]] || [[File:Aerial View Of Sky Ride And Panorama Of " A Century Of Progress." (NBY 416916).jpg|175px]]|| [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]] || {{flag|United States|1934}} ||align="center"| 1933 || 564 m || Demolished, 1934. |- | Knoxville Transporter Bridge || || [[Knoxville, Tennessee]] || {{flag|United States}} || 1894|| || Demolished.<ref name=":0" /> |- | [[Widnes-Runcorn Transporter Bridge]] {{coord|53|20|47.76|N|2|44|10.68|W|type:landmark|name=Widnes-Runcorn Transporter Bridge}} || [[File:Runcorn transporter bridge (Wonder Book of Engineering Wonders, 1931).jpg|175px]] || [[Widnes]]-[[Runcorn]] || {{flag|United Kingdom}} ||align="center"| 1905 || 304 m || Demolished, 1961. |}
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