SteelCamel wrote: ↑Mon Jul 20, 2020 19:55
Perhaps stretching the definition a little - the
turntable ferry to Skye - though it seems they're not going to run this year at all. These ferries used to be everywhere in the highlands, but this is the last one you can still travel on.
I had to check to see what that turntable ferry was - a fascinating design. I've used the ferry that runs from the Black Isle to Cromarty, it only took two cars. You had to park on the circular turntable (the other car driver could not understand this, nor the ferryman's wild arm waving to get him positioned
) and you span around on the way across. I think it may have been electric operated.
- I'd second the mentions for the Tees Transporter Bridge. Pity a lot of the surrounding area is derelict wasteland, for the moment at least. I really should try and get to the one in Newport some day.
- Forth Bridges are well worth a look close up. An additional decent viewpoint can be found on the A904 just to the west, up on the hill.
- The road to Lindisfarne. Check the tide times, unless you own a DUKW, or like your car full of sea...
- The ex-A625 at Mam Tor. Completely undriveable, though I've bounced down it on a mountain bike! It's an impressive view, looking at layer upon layer of fixes - proving that we can't always tame nature.
- Churchill Barriers, Orkney: Well worth jumping on the "other" ferry that lands at St. Margaret's Hope on South Ronaldsay (it was also cheaper when we used it) and driving up the chain of islands. Several were joined together in WW2 by causeways to block the inlets into Scapa Flow. Don't forget to visit the Italian Chapel, which is the only remains of the POW camp that supplied the labour force to build them.
- I'm a sucker for the many urban motorways that were built in the 70s, particularly in Leeds and Newcastle - which really push the definition of a motorway to the limit!
- Magic Roundabout, Swindon - if anything just to scare the living daylights out of any passengers that are with you