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Kingston Bridge, Glasgow

Index Kingston Bridge, Glasgow

The Kingston Bridge is a balanced cantilever dual-span ten lane road bridge made of triple-cell segmented prestressed concrete box girders crossing the River Clyde in Glasgow, Scotland. [1]

40 relations: A74(M) and M74 motorways, Anderston, Ayrshire, Balfour Beatty, Box girder bridge, Braehead, Cantilever bridge, Clyde Arc, Construction aggregate, Dual carriageway, George V Bridge, Glasgow, Glasgow, Glasgow Airport, Glasgow Inner Ring Road, Glasgow Prestwick Airport, Gorbals, Greenock, Guinness World Records, Hunterston, Interchange (road), Linwood bank robbery, M77 motorway, M8 motorway (Scotland), Marples Ridgway, Pier (architecture), Prestressed concrete, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, River Clyde, Road junction, Segmental bridge, Simple Minds, Spandrel, Speed Your Love to Me, The Co-operative Group, Tonne, Tradeston, Tradeston Bridge, Twin bridges, Urban legend, William Fairhurst.

A74(M) and M74 motorways

The A74(M) and M74 form a major motorway in the United Kingdom, mainly in Scotland, with a short section in England.

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Anderston

Anderston (Anderstoun, Baile Aindrea) is an area of Glasgow, Scotland.

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Ayrshire

Ayrshire (Siorrachd Inbhir Àir) is an historic county and registration county in south-west Scotland, located on the shores of the Firth of Clyde.

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Balfour Beatty

Balfour Beatty plc is an English multinational infrastructure group with capabilities in construction services, support services and infrastructure investments.

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Box girder bridge

A box girder bridge is a bridge in which the main beams comprise girders in the shape of a hollow box.

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Braehead

Braehead (Braeheid, Gaelic: Ceann a' Bhruthaich) is a commercial development located at the former site of Braehead Power Station in Renfrew on the south bank of the River Clyde in Renfrewshire.

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Cantilever bridge

A cantilever bridge is a bridge built using cantilevers, structures that project horizontally into space, supported on only one end.

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Clyde Arc

The Clyde Arc (known locally as the Squinty Bridge), is a road bridge spanning the River Clyde in Glasgow, in west central Scotland, connecting Finnieston, near the Clyde Auditorium and SEC with Pacific Quay and Glasgow Science Centre in Govan.

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Construction aggregate

Construction aggregate, or simply "aggregate", is a broad category of coarse to medium grained particulate material used in construction, including sand, gravel, crushed stone, slag, recycled concrete and geosynthetic aggregates.

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Dual carriageway

A dual carriageway (British English) or divided highway (American English) is a class of highway with carriageways for traffic travelling in opposite directions separated by a central reservation.

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George V Bridge, Glasgow

George V Bridge (sometimes referred to as King George V Bridge) is a three-arched road bridge over the River Clyde in the city centre of Glasgow, Scotland, named after King George V. The bridge was designed by Glasgow City Engineer Thomas Somers and built by Melville Dundas & Whitson.

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Glasgow

Glasgow (Glesga; Glaschu) is the largest city in Scotland, and third most populous in the United Kingdom.

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Glasgow Airport

Glasgow Airport, also unofficially Glasgow International Airport, formerly Abbotsinch Airport, is an international airport in Scotland, located west of Glasgow city centre.

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Glasgow Inner Ring Road

The Glasgow Inner Ring Road was a proposed ring road encircling the city centre of Glasgow, Scotland.

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Glasgow Prestwick Airport

Glasgow Prestwick Airport (IATA: PIK, ICAO: EGPK) is an international airport serving the west of Scotland, situated northeast of the town of Prestwick in South Ayrshire and from the city centre of Glasgow.

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Gorbals

The Gorbals is an area in the city of Glasgow, Scotland, on the south bank of the River Clyde.

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Greenock

Greenock (Grianaig) is a town and administrative centre in the Inverclyde council area in Scotland and a former burgh within the historic county of Renfrewshire, located in the west central Lowlands of Scotland.

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Guinness World Records

Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.

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Hunterston

Hunterston, by the Firth of Clyde, is a coastal area in Ayrshire, Scotland.

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Interchange (road)

In the field of road transport, an interchange is a road junction that uses grade separation, and typically one or more ramps, to permit traffic on at least one highway to pass through the junction without interruption from any other crossing traffic stream.

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Linwood bank robbery

The Linwood bank robbery was a bank robbery that occurred in Linwood, near Glasgow, in 1969.

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M77 motorway

The M77 motorway is a motorway in Scotland.

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M8 motorway (Scotland)

The M8 is the busiest motorway in Scotland and one of the busiest in the United Kingdom.

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Marples Ridgway

Marples Ridgway was a British civil engineering company founded in 1948 by engineer Reginald Ridgway and accountant Ernest Marples.

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Pier (architecture)

A pier, in architecture, is an upright support for a structure or superstructure such as an arch or bridge.

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Prestressed concrete

Prestressed concrete is a form of concrete used in construction which is "pre-stressed" by being placed under compression prior to supporting any loads beyond its own dead weight.

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Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother

Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon (4 August 1900 – 30 March 2002) was the wife of King George VI and the mother of Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon.

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River Clyde

The River Clyde (Abhainn Chluaidh,, Watter o Clyde) is a river that flows into the Firth of Clyde in Scotland.

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Road junction

A junction is where two or more roads meet.

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Segmental bridge

As its name implies, a segmental bridge is a bridge built in short sections (called segments), i.e., one piece at a time, as opposed to traditional methods that build a bridge in very large sections.

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Simple Minds

Simple Minds are a Scottish rock band.

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Spandrel

A spandrel, less often spandril or splaundrel, is the space between two arches or between an arch and a rectangular enclosure.

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Speed Your Love to Me

"Speed Your Love to Me" is a song by Simple Minds, which was released as the second single from the album Sparkle in the Rain on 9 January 1984.

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The Co-operative Group

The Co-operative Group, trading as the Co-op, is a British consumer co-operative with a diverse family of retail businesses including food retail and wholesale; electrical retail; financial services; insurance services; legal services and funeralcare, with in excess of 4,200 locations.

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Tonne

The tonne (Non-SI unit, symbol: t), commonly referred to as the metric ton in the United States, is a non-SI metric unit of mass equal to 1,000 kilograms;.

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Tradeston

Tradeston is a small district in the Scottish city of Glasgow adjacent to the city centre on the south bank of the River Clyde.

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Tradeston Bridge

The Tradeston Bridge (colloquially known as the squiggly bridge) is a pedestrian bridge across the River Clyde in Glasgow which opened on 14 May 2009.

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Twin bridges

Twin bridges are a set of two bridges running parallel to each other.

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Urban legend

An urban legend, urban myth, urban tale, or contemporary legend is a form of modern folklore.

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William Fairhurst

William Albert Fairhurst CBE (21 August 1903, Alderley Edge, England – 13 March 1982, Howick, New Zealand) was an English-born bridge designer and international chess master.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingston_Bridge,_Glasgow

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