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Dock Bridge carried a single track railway and footpath linking the steelworks and the docks. It had two sections with one span over the South Gut from the South Quay to the
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New Bridge (built 1904) collapsed on the morning of 20 November 2009: it carried a major road from the Low
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Navvies Bridge was a former railway bridge, built in 1878 by the
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