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English: Kessock Bridge Inverness. This 1,056 metre long bridge over the estuary of the River Ness is the only cable stay bridge in Britain.
It carries the A9, linking the body of the Highlands to the north and west and replacing the ferries which, in one form or another, provided crossing since as early as 1400. Construction began on the bridge in 1976 and the bridge was completed and opened in 1982. Kessock Bridge is of German design and was built at a cost of £33m to withstand winds of up to 99mph and possible earthquake. The 64 cables of spiral strand steel are suspended from two sets of hollow steel towers, containing stairways, and rising 43.7yd above the deck. The steel piles which support the piers in water some 13yd deep are themselves driven 65.6yd into the seabed. 777178 |
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| Author | Paul Anderson |
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