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The Vyrnwy dam is 44 metres (144 ft) high from the bottom of the valley, and 39 metres (128 ft) thick at the base; it is 358 metres (1,175 ft) long and has a road bridge running along the top. It is decorated with 31 arches each spanning 7.3 metres (24 ft) and two small towers each with four corner turrets rising 4.3 metres (14 ft) above the ...
Lake Vyrnwy Straining Tower. / 52.7699; -3.4658. The Straining Tower at Lake Vyrnwy is an intake tower built to extract water from the lake. The tower stands on the north shore of Lake Vyrnwy, near the village of Llanwddyn, in Powys, Wales. The Lake Vyrnwy dam project was designed to provide a water supply to the city of Liverpool and work on ...
The Ashtabula River railroad disaster (also called the Ashtabula horror, the Ashtabula Bridge disaster, and the Ashtabula train disaster) was the failure of a bridge over the Ashtabula River near the town of Ashtabula, Ohio, in the United States on December 29, 1876. A Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway train, the Pacific Express, passed ...
The bridge was completed in 1969 as a replacement for the collapsed Silver Bridge, although it is located about 1 mile (1.6 km) downstream (south) of the original. [ 23 ] The bridge carries US 35 across the river and serves as a major crossing for people and goods traveling between Charleston, West Virginia , and Southern and Central Ohio .
The railway bridge collapsed under a heavy train loaded with more than 500 passengers; more than 70 were killed. Chester rail bridge: Chester, Massachusetts: United States 31 August 1893: Lattice truss bridge: Removed rivets caused bridge to collapse under the weight of a train 14 killed Point Ellice Bridge: Victoria, British Columbia: Canada ...
Non-fatal injuries. 216. Two overhead walkways in the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri, collapsed on July 17, 1981, killing 114 people and injuring 216. Loaded with partygoers, the concrete and glass platforms crashed onto a tea dance in the lobby. Kansas City society was affected for years, with the collapse resulting in billions ...
The Yellowstone River bridge collapse was a train derailment that occurred on June 24, 2023, near Columbus, Montana, United States. A bridge that crosses the Yellowstone River collapsed, causing several cars of a freight train carrying hazardous materials to fall into the water below. The incident resulted in environmental concerns and internet ...
March 29, 2024 at 3:02 AM. Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse this week joined the growing list of deadly bridge collapses nationally, while renewing focus on efforts to prevent the ...