Points Bridge Traditional Cache

This cache has been archived.

Dalesman: This cache has been in need of care and maintenance for some time and as the owner has not repaired it I am archiving it.

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Hidden : 2/2/2009
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

Easy walk along the Wylam Waggonway from the car park in Wylam (N54 58.590 W001 48.975), or a longer walk from Low Prudhoe Public Carpark (N54 57.945 W001 52.004). The main part of the walk is suitable for bikes, wheelchairs and push chairs. The actual cache site is just off the path and not suitable for prams etc.

Hagg Bank Bridge, or known locally as Points Bridge.

When it was built by the Scotswood, Newburn and Wylam Railway Company in 1876, the design was ahead of its time.

The original plan had been to build a bridge with 4 spans resting on 3 piers on the river bed. This was rejected by the local coal companies who feared that the construction of the piers on the river bed would disturb the shallow mine workings below, which already suffered from flooding.

The designers found the solution in designing a single span bridge carrying a double track, without the need for piers. The bridge consists of three parallel wrought iron arches resting on abutments on each bank, with the twin rail decks suspended by 14 wrought iron drop bars. It cost £16,000 to build.

The bridge paved the way for new developments in bridge building - Newcastle's Tyne Bridge in 1928, and Sydney Harbour Bridge in 1932, being direct descendants of the design and construction of Hagg's Bridge.

Many of the trains which used the bridge carried coal from the collieries at Newburn and Walbottle westwards to Carlisle.

The line was closed in 1968 and the bridge later purchased by Northumberland County Council. It was restored in 1997 with help from the Heritage lottery Fund.

Cache is a small tupperware clip top box with some swaps in it.

This is our first cache that we have hidden and I hope we have done everything right! Apologies if not!!

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Jura nccebnpuvat gur oevqtr sebz Jlynz, gurer vf n cngu whfg gb gur yrsg. Tb qbja guvf cngu, ghea vzzrqvngyl yrsg naq tb guebhtu gur ghaary. Pnpur vf fvghngrq ba gur bgure fvqr bs gur ghaary jurer 2 sraprf zrrg ng n pbeare.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
-------------------------
N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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