Rolling Lift Bridge — Local services in Waitematā

Looks good. Public toilet beside the bridge. The Lift Bridge is no longer operational. Installed in 1932, the Viaduct Lift Bridge is one of the few bridges of its type in the world and was fabricated by the Cleveland Bridge and Engineering Co Ltd, Darlington, England. It is a steel bascule rolling truss bridge. The Auckland Harbour Board installed it to span the 13.7m between the Eastern and Western Viaducts. It originally carried a railway connected to oil loading facilities on Wynyard Wharf and was raised and lowered at the arrival and departure of the fishing fleet. It was manually operated and raised by rolling back 90° on its cam ends under counterweight. A pinion moved along a horizontal rack at the height of the centre of the cam-end circle. Later driven by electricity, it was in use until the development of the Maritime Museum on Hobson Wharf in 1992. Now a ‘bridge to nowhere’, it has been preserved for its engineering...

The old Te Wero Bridge, made with a rolling lift technology, bolted and assembled together in 1932 from the kit constructed in 1931 in Darlington, England, by an company called Cleveland Bridge and Engineering Company. The Wero has now been fixed down with pipes running underneath; and although in the past buses and cars drive through the bridge, it's now used mainly for pedestrians with occasional cars passing through to and from...

AMAZING bridge of IMMACULATE construction! The entire thing is a masterpiece! I had the good fortune to see the bridge's famous rolling mechanism in action. Much cleaner, smoother, faster, and safer movement than the ones I'm used to seeing near me. Also, the color of the bridge is well suited to its environment, and it's just in a cool part of town. Would recommend to any tourists or bridge enjoyers who...