The Anonymous Widower

The Sheppey Crossing

The Sheppey Crossing is the bridge onto the island for road traffic.

Note the towers of the older Kingsferry Bridge, which carries the railway across. It is a rare vertical-lift bridge that carries both road and railway.

One of the others of this type in the UK is the Newport Bridge on Teesside.

The Newport Lifting Bridge

I wrote about it in The Tees Bridges and Barrage in 2010.

September 22, 2016 - Posted by AnonW | Transport/Travel | Bridges, Driving, Isle Of Sheppey, Kent, Sheerness Line, Trains