Which bridges are closed for the jubilee

We walked across one of the bridges twice, once in the day time and once in the evening, and the views change each time. Joe Kemchi Tel Aviv, Israel contributions. Efficient pedestrian bridge with a lot of photo opportunities.

It only takes a few minutes to walk across and there are some nice photo opportunities along the way. Anastasia V London contributions. Either during a day or at night - lovely place to take pictures of both bridge itself and London.

Areas on both ends of the bridge are worth exploring and the bridge is a nice example of civil engineering. What's not to like! Halcro J Crayford, UK 50 contributions. Besides their obvious use of enabling pedestrian traffic to travel from one side of the river to the other, they give some of the most fantastic views of the Thames in London.

Personally I find much more to see on the north bridge with steps just outside the Embankment Tube at the bottom of Villiers Street leading to the Royal Festival Hall. This is even more spectacular at night when everything is lit up in the most amazing way.

Charing Cross Station is ablaze with colour. All the buildings along the Strand including the Shell Building and the Savoy Hotel are bright and spectacular too.

Even the brutalist architecture of the National Theatre, British Film Institute and Queen Elizabeth Hall is made softer and more beautiful by the splash of coloured lights that cover them. There are steps at both ends of both bridges. For wheelchairs and people for whom steps are a trial, there are lifts at both ends on the south bridge. On the north bridge, there is a lift outside the Festival Hall. At the other end there is no lift down to Embankment Station, but the bridge continues at the same level onto a walkway above Villiers St, which comes out onto Charing Cross Station concourse between The Beer House Pub and the steps down to Villiers Street on one side and Platform No 1 on the other.

In fact,there are three bridges:a railway one placed between two newer pedestrian bridges. The new ones have a nice,modern look and offers nice views of the Thames and its banks. But that's all,it's not quite a must do One of the best crossings for pedestrians is the two bridges that run alongside the railway line from Charing Cross the Waterloo East.

I would suggest going on the west side for great views of Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament and the east side for views of the City Of London including St Paul's Cathedral, the Shard and more modern buildings.

Showing results of My own edit - It is actually in Waterloo as Southwark is a bit further away. Add a reply. Also popular with travelers. Churchill War Rooms. Tower Bridge. Tower of London. Houses of Parliament. Westminster Abbey. Paul's Cathedral. Covent Garden. Sky Garden. London Eye. Buckingham Palace. Anything missing or inaccurate? We recommend booking Golden Jubilee Bridges tours ahead of time to secure your spot. We support your professional training and development Work on exciting and innovative projects Our work is guided by values Work for sustainable change Your excellence powering innovation Making sustainability our business Did we answer all your questions?

Contact Peter Curran. Services we provided Bridge engineering Ground engineering. Design and scope of works Each footbridge is a seven-span cable-stayed structure hung away from the rail bridge on tapered tubular steel pylons. Innovative construction methods The river foundations are designed to resist ship impacts of 30MN, and we maximised the used of precast components to minimise tidal construction work under the railway bridge.

Ground engineering challenges on a complex and historic site The complex and historic site posed a series of challenges for the ground engineering and foundation design: Deep large-diameter bored piles and hand-dug caissons were required, and the design of these involved detailed modelling of their potential interaction with existing bridge substructures.

Ship impact protection had to be devised for the existing bridge caissons for the accommodation of large vessel impact loading on the new structures without transferring significant loads to the railway bridge. The ground at this point is London Clay and Lambeth Group clays, overlain by river bed deposits and a thin layer of river terrace gravels. In one upstream location, the design had to allow for a scour hole up to 16m deep into the clay surface right at the site of the largest substructure element.

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