TRANSPORTER BRIDGE
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II*
List Entry Number: 1139267
Date first listed: 21-Jun-1985
Statutory Address: TRANSPORTER BRIDGE, FERRY ROAD, MIDDLESBROUGH
Statutory Address: TRANSPORTER BRIDGE, PORT CLARENCE ROAD, STOCKTON ON TEES
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Location
Statutory Address: TRANSPORTER BRIDGE, FERRY ROAD, MIDDLESBROUGH
Statutory Address: TRANSPORTER BRIDGE, PORT CLARENCE ROAD, STOCKTON ON TEES
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
District: Middlesbrough (Unitary Authority)
District: Stockton-on-Tees (Unitary Authority)
Parish: Billingham
National Park: N/A
National Grid Reference: NZ 49991 21297
Summary
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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Details
The asset was previously listed twice also under List entry 1139845. This entry was removed from the List on 12 July 2017.
NZ 42 SE
NZ 52 SW
7/427
8/427
BILLINGHAM
PORT CLARENCE ROAD (off)
(South side)
Transporter Bridge
II*
Transporter Bridge over River Tees, 1911 by G.C. Imbault (Cleveland Bridge
and Engineering Co.Ltd.) engineer; constructed by Sir William Arrol and
Company Limited (Glasgow). Opened by Prince Arthur of Connaught. Plated
and riveted steel. 2 pairs of tapering towers on steel and concrete
caissons, support main cantilevered trusses, of which lower chord carries
trolley way. Catwalk along trolley way 49m above water, and 260m. in
length, with 174m. span over river. Clusters of woven steel wire tension
ropes connect outward tips of trusses vertically down to concrete anchorage
blocks set into the ground. Carriage suspended on steel wire ropes, from
trolley hauled by 2 ropes connected to electrically powered winch, in
housing on south bank of river. Carriage damaged by enemy action in 1940
Listing NGR: NZ 49991 21297
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
Legacy System number: 59200
Legacy System: LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing