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Tyne Bridge

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Pedagogue

Sorry to be the terrible pedant/anally retentive looser type, but although built by the same company as the Tyne bridge, and opened after it, as the Sydney Harbour Bridge was started before the Tyne Bridge, the Tyne Bridge couldn't have been the prototype.Sadly, the Wear bridge which (I think) predates both is probably the prototype for both (aargh)


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