Ennerdale Bridges

The Ennerdale Link Bridges (also known as Kingswood Bridge, Ennerdale Bridge, Raich Carter Bridge e.t.c.) is a Link Bascule Bridge in Hull, England, United Kingdom. It is the one of two sets of Link Bascule Bridges on the River Hull (the other being Stoneferry Bridges). It is the third youngest bridge in the city (the second being Millennium Bridge and the first being Scale Lane Bridge). It connects the east side of Raich Carter Way to the west, and going easterly it provides a link to Orchard Park, Beverley Road and Dunswell, going westerly it provides a link to Kingswood, Bransholme and Woodmansey.

Description
It is very similar to it's older counterpart, Stoneferry Bridge, with pale blue paintwork and design. Despite the two bridges being closer together, it is believed that this bridge might have the ability of one bridge operating at a time, though this is unknown due to the rarity of it opening.

It was part of the construction of the Ennerdale Link Bypass which started in around 1992, with the bridge originally going to be a tunnel. Although after issues with the ground were encountered, a bridge was constructed over the river instead. It weighs a total of 800 tonnes.

The bridge does not open often - vessels rarely use this part of the river, apart from pleasure boats and preservation barges from Beverley from time to time.

Infrastructure
Infrastructure is very similar to Stoneferry Bridge also - it has four Forest City halogen wigwags at each side and four GEC Elliott signals (two at each side) to warn motorists and pedestrians respectively. There are four barriers on each side, two to block each side of the carriageway. It contains a set of sounders which are encased in grills on the wigwags.

Other Info
Like Sutton Road Bridge, the last known opening of this bridge was in October 2019 for a dredging boat, which ran to clear the silt out of the river. Before then the last opening was on 22nd September 2017 for the 'Open Bridges' event, which was organized as apart of the City of Culture.

Faults
There have not been any faults here before.