How high are you?

[Rapido925M]

MiL lives in Ipswich and we "camp" on her drive for a couple of nights from time to time. When we visit we take her out for trip: today we went to Manningtree on the Essex border. To get there we need to cross the main London to Norwich rail-line. There are two options: a level crossing at the top of a hill or a bridge quoted as 9'6".

My van is 9'3" but I always take the level crossing. As we descended from it a van (Transit Luton?) emerged from under the bridge: much of its roof was concertinaed backwards and 50% was missing. Take care folks!

Gordon

 

[Ingwe]

Will do. Thanks.
When I saw the title of your post, my initial reaction was “not high enough, mate! Better have another drag.“

 

[Shrimp]

Whoops!

 

[2GB Racing]

I know bridge well but not extremely well

 

[PP Bear]

Thought this was a thread about whacky backy….

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[PP Bear]

 

[pappajohn]

Disused rail bridge outside Scarborough....9ft 3in sign on one side....9ft 9in on the other.
Good thing is it's a dead end road and the 9ft 9in is on the dead end side so to get there you pass under from the 9ft 3in side

 

[SpeedyDux]

There is a 9'6" bridge not half a mile from Speedy Towers. Due to a road closure for resurfacing, traffic was diverted along the road leading to that low bridge. Including some double decker buses. Getting them turned round in a narrow road must have been fun. -NOT.

PS that low bridge isn't shown in my Truckers Atlas.

 

[CamperJack]

PP Bear That video makes me wince!

For bridges that are rounded is the height given the max height in the middle?

Including some double decker buses. Getting them turned round in a narrow road must have been fun. -NOT

Reminds of a tale from my Dad (a coach driver) who was once told off by a police man for refusing to do a three point turn to avoid a road closed ahead, until he pointed out the coach was longer than the road was wide!

 

[Figaro]

I wonder if Penske have sent the memo to the drivers yet ?

Some RV aircon units cleanly removed, sort of. lol

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[dunnah01]

PP Bear That video makes me wince!

For bridges that are rounded is the height given the max height in the middle?

There should be two vertical white bars towards the middle of arch bridges about 3m apart - this is where the signed advisory headroom is available. Flat soffit bridges should have mandatory roundel signs which are enforceable.

I've never seen a correctly signed railway underbridge in the UK so be careful if you think you're marginal on the signage.

 

[PP Bear]

PP Bear That video makes me wince!

For bridges that are rounded is the height given the max height in the middle?



Reminds of a tale from my Dad (a coach driver) who was once told off by a police man for refusing to do a three point turn to avoid a road closed ahead, until he pointed out the coach was longer than the road was wide!

There’s an arched bridge on the Andover to Salisbury road. The height is stencilled on the arch and the road has white lines to show the path for high vehicles.

I’ve always used it, but you have to watch the clueless car drivers that wonder why you’re waiting for a clear road to proceed and not understanding that you need to spread eagle the road to go under.

When I’m in a new area, I usually check out any narrow roads on Google Earth street view and have come across some pretty low bridges that I would have encountered and no chance of turning around to be seen anywhere.

The bridge into Salisbury…

 

[PP Bear]

Added to the fact that you should watch for newly tarmac roads, as I bet they don’t re measure the bridges.

 

[Wanderlust]

A very expensive accident if you have a rail bridge strike in England now, not only do you (or most likely your company) get charged for the engineers assessment but if its closed to rail traffic for a while you also pay all the customer compensation incurred by the rail company, DPD reckon each bridge strike by one of their double deckers costs them 7 figure sums. There is a bridge near Hinkley on the A5 known as the DPD bridge for obvious reasons.... despite flashing warning signs both sides.

 

[dunnah01]

A very expensive accident if you have a rail bridge strike in England now, not only do you (or most likely your company) get charged for the engineers assessment but if its closed to rail traffic for a while you also pay all the customer compensation incurred by the rail company, DPD reckon each bridge strike by one of their double deckers costs them 7 figure sums. There is a bridge near Hinkley on the A5 known as the DPD bridge for obvious reasons.... despite flashing warning signs both sides.

If I was DPD I'd challenge any costs for bridge strikes. The railway & local highway authorities have no idea how to sign their bridge headroom.

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[Nigel P]

How do you decide? These are all signs for the same bridge! Seems to be a struggle with the metric conversion.

 

[Aspenshaw]

I know the bridge from an experience. Bushes hid the sign partially, the sign didn't tell us which road had the bridge - although it becomes obvious as you approach but too late for us. We had to turn round which didn't go down with the locals!

 

[Kirsten]

cant bear to watch it...is it Me - or are there not flashing lights that show the approaching vehicles from the road in front that they are over height ? Also the bridge may be 11 feet 9 inches high but the barriers below it are much lower and it is those the trucks are hitting.... and what then happens to the truck if it is stuck - out forwards or backwards ?

 

[Simon Meadwell]

I spent a full weekend back and two to the local tip in my car probably six journeys down under the low canal bridge. Come Monday morning in my large van i set off down the same road only just mansged to stop about six inches from the bridge van would have been wrecked.

 

[Spriddler]

I spent a full weekend back and two to the local tip in my car probably six journeys down under the low canal bridge. Come Monday morning in my large van i set off down the same road only just mansged to stop about six inches from the bridge van would have been wrecked.

I must've had going away in the motorhome on my mind when I did exactly the opposite this morning by going the long way round to the dentist in my car to avoid the 'low' bridge.

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[scotzsue]

Added to the fact that you should watch for newly tarmac roads, as I bet they don’t re measure the bridges.

Parking area at the local park has this problem, too low now for some mobility vehicles, I just scraped in before with the doblo not tried since resurfacing and seeing the damage to the barrier

 

[Simon Meadwell]

I must've had going away in the motorhome on my mind when I did exactly the opposite this morning by going the long way round to the dentist in my car to avoid the 'low' bridge.

I had to brake so hard i got cramp in my calf . I then got the concern i could of been in the Motorhome i was traumatised for days .