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NEWUSER
07-01-2007, 05:05 AM
http://www.197aerial.co.uk/falkirk_wheel_a.jpg
In Falkirk, Scotland a giant wheel lift canal boats from one canal to another
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From another angle
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Official site http://www.thefalkirkwheel.co.uk/
Falco
07-01-2007, 07:18 AM
isnt there a similar construction in london as well?
NEWUSER
07-01-2007, 03:24 PM
isnt there a similar construction in london as well?
I don't know.. Unless you thinking of the bridge that was built to transport ships... If you know of any, please post.
Falco
07-01-2007, 03:57 PM
I don't know.. Unless you thinking of the bridge that was built to transport ships... If you know of any, please post.
im not sure^^
probaly i ment that one :P
NEWUSER
07-01-2007, 04:12 PM
Actually i made a mistake, i was thinking of the Magdeburg Water-bridge in Germany.
http://msgboard.snopes.com/photos/architecture/graphics/waterbridge.jpg
info: Taking six years to build and costing around half a billion euros, the massive undertaking will connect Berlin's inland harbor with the ports along the Rhine river. At the center of the project is Europe's longest water bridge measuring in just shy of a kilometer at 918 meters. The huge tub to transport ships over the Elbe took 24,000 metric tons of steel and 68,000 cubic meters of concrete to build.
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