Garmin Visit UK - Clifton Suspension Bridge Geocoin IKB

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Owner:
La Fifi Send Message to Owner Message this owner
Released:
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Origin:
Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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Would like to visit other bridges, famous or otherwise - worldwide.

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    Tracking History (34163.2mi) View Map

    Visited 12/7/2014 Zwijnen Heintje took it to Let It Snow! Gelderland, Netherlands - 98.82 miles  Visit Log

    A short visit to one of my own caches in Nijmegen very close to the arch bridge across the river Waal.
    The bridge was opened on 16 June 1936 by Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands. At the start of the Second World War the Dutch combat engineering units blew up the bridge to stop the German army's advance. During the occupation the Germans restored the bridge and from 1943 it was in use for traffic again. The Waalbrug can be found in the movie 'A Bridge Too Far' and the computer game 'Medal of Honor: Frontline'.

    • bridge Nijmegen
    Visited 11/23/2014 Zwijnen Heintje took it to CHALLENGE: DER HARDCORE-CACHER (15x 8 Sterne) Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany - 61.24 miles  Visit Log

    I’m very sorry to keep this trackable for such a long time. Today I finally had the opportunity to go caching again and to place this coin in a cache. But at the first cache I fell out of a tree and plunged into the water. Very painful and cold this time of the year… Everything hurts, but I hope to go out caching soon, and to drop off this coin.
    Visited 10/12/2014 Zwijnen Heintje took it to Zwerfstenen bij de stuwwal van Mook Limburg, Netherlands - 66.93 miles  Visit Log

    IKB visited an Earth Cache on International EarthCache Day. These are various boulders brought to Netherlands during the recent ice ages. The location of Earth Cache is on a moraine, which is also sculptured by the glaciers.

    • International EarthCache Day
    Retrieve It from a Cache 9/17/2014 Zwijnen Heintje retrieved it from Anton von Rieppel Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany   Visit Log

    On the move again…
    Dropped Off 7/27/2014 blackbeard69 placed it in Anton von Rieppel Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany - 26.13 miles  Visit Log
    Write note 7/27/2014 blackbeard69 posted a note for it   Visit Log

    This coin visited the Müngstener Brücke (Müngsten Railroad Bridge), 107 meters above the Wupper river, build from 1894 to 1897. Please refer to the attached picture. The engineer Anton von Rieppel was in charge of the project.

    • IKB an der Müngstener Brücke
    Write note 7/26/2014 blackbeard69 posted a note for it   Visit Log

    This coin visited the A1 highway bridge Leverkusen in the north of Cologne, see the attached pictures.

    Build in 1965 for about 50,000 cars per day, it has to manage 120,000 cars and lorries per day today on three lanes per direction. During a revision, damages have been found, and a closer inspection yielded that low quality steel has been used in the 1960s instead of the scheduled high quality steel.

    Now three lanes have been reduced to two, the speed limit was set from 100 km/h to 60 km/h, and the bridge is closed for everything heavier than 3.5 tons. Police controls caught 20,000 (in words: twenty thousand) lorry drivers, that simply ignored the closing, alone in the last month.

    Engineers say they are happy if they could keep the bridge open until a new one will be (hopefully) ready in 2020.

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    Retrieve It from a Cache 7/23/2014 blackbeard69 retrieved it from 144 Monde Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany   Visit Log

    Welcome to Cologne, Germany 🙂!

    This coin will attend me on my way.
    Dropped Off 6/15/2014 roterzille placed it in 144 Monde Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany - 15.77 miles  Visit Log
    Retrieve It from a Cache 6/14/2014 roterzille retrieved it from Das Ziegenproblem Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany   Visit Log

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