Stoneferry Bridges

The Stoneferry Bridges (also known as Stoneferry Bridge, Ferry Lane Bridge or Clough Road Bridge) is a Link Bascule Bridge in Hull, England, United Kingdom. It is one of two sets of twin bascule bridges and is also one of the youngest bridges in the city.

Description
Stoneferry Bridge is cool-looking with its pale blue paint, and still almost looks brand new. Its control tower is also used by the River Authority to measure the tides. Like Drypool Bridge, it was built to replace an old swing bridge.

The bridges can open and close one at a time - so for example if a boat has passed under one of the bridges, it can close before the other one opens, allowing the barriers to open for traffic to cross on that side.

The bridges were built by a Dutch company called 'Ravenstein', and were shipped to Hull on a vessel via the North Sea and Humber.

Infrastructure
The infrastructure on Stoneferry Bridge is similar to the other bridges on the River Hull, each bridge has two Forest City halogen wigwags on either side and Page Signals on both sides for pedestrians. The two bridges have three barriers on either side, two on the road and one on the pavement. The sounders here are the usual Clifford and Snell or E2S type.

Faults
Neither of the two bridges here have been known to observe any faults.

Other Info
It is frequented daily by and opens for the Swinderby oil tanker barge, which carries imported specialised chemicals in between King George Dock and Croda UK on Oak Road.