The Swing Bridge has not successfully rotated open since 2019 and a fresh campaign was launched last year to have the ...

The Swing Bridge is one of the landmark bridges spanning the Tyne between Newcastle and Gateshead Newcastle's landmark Swing Bridge is to reopen after structural repairs were completed ahead of ...

As well as potentially rotating for river traffic the Swing Bridge is also a road bridge ... They include the Port of Tyne, Newcastle and Gateshead councils and National Highways.

Tyneside’s famous Swing Bridge ... Newcastle Lib Dem councillor Pauline Allen said she was “very concerned that it should be swinging again” and asked if the Port of Tyne had provided ...

Tyneside’s famous Swing ... bridge is estimated to have swung open around 300,000 times since its completion in 1876, allowing roughly half a million boats to travel up and down the Tyne. READ MORE: ...