点评:We crossed the Tay Tay Road Bridge on our way from Braemar to St. Andrews across the Firth of Tay from Dundee to Newport-on-Tay. At around 1.4 miles long, it is one of the longest road bridges in Europe, and was opened by Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother on 18 August 1966.
Construction began in March 1963 with the infilling of West Graving Dock, King William Dock and Earl Grey docks in Dundee. Construction also required the demolition of Dundee's Royal Arch where Queen Victoria had entered the city on a royal visit, however rubble from the Victoria arch was used as foundations for the on-ramp.
The bridge consists of 42 spans with a navigation channel located closer to the Fife side. During the construction of the bridge, 140,000 tons of concrete, 4,600 tons of mild steel and 8,150 tons of structural steel was used. The bridge has a gradient of 1:81 running from 32.0ft. above sea-level on the Dundee side to 125.0ft. above sea-level in Fife.
The bridge took 3.5 years to build at a cost of approximately £6 million.
翻译:我们从布雷马尔前往圣安德鲁斯的途中,经过了泰泰公路桥,这座桥横跨泰湾,连接邓迪和纽波特。泰泰公路桥全长约1.4英里,是欧洲最长的公路桥之一,于1966年8月18日由伊丽莎白王太后正式开通。
大桥的建设始于1963年3月,首先填平了邓迪的西格雷文码头、威廉国王码头和格雷伯爵码头。施工期间,邓迪的皇家拱门也被拆除,维多利亚女王曾从这里进入邓迪。不过,维多利亚拱门的瓦砾被用作了匝道的地基。
大桥由42个桥跨组成,靠近法夫郡一侧设有航道。大桥建设过程中共使用了14万吨混凝土、4600吨低碳钢和8150吨结构钢。这座桥的坡度为1:81,从邓迪一侧海拔32.0英尺(约9.75米)延伸至法夫一侧海拔125.0英尺(约38.8米)。
这座桥耗时3.5年建成,造价约为600万英镑。