London Tower Bridge (Full Bridge Operation)
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- London Tower Bridge, Tower Bridge, London.
Location: Tower Bridge, London
Date Filmed: 11-08-2016
The iconic tower bridge in Central London seen raising for a small vessel heading up the River Thames.
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Only 5 minutes and 31 seconds was taken out my day to watch this
The amount of impatient people in London is staggering!!
You should see the second video I filmed a few months later!: czcams.com/video/IuQ1ReR4-Zg/video.html
Time is money in London Andrew M Wells!
There was a wonderful British feature film made here in the summer of 1958 and released a year later entitled “The Boy and The Bridge”, about a nine year old runaway, Tommy Doyle (Ian MacLaine), who makes a home for himself in a room at the top of the north turret and comes to regard it as his own personal bridge, so much so that one night, he saves the life of a suicidal woman. He sees her about to climb over the bridge parapet and jump into the river. “DON’T”, he yells down to her, “DON’T JUMP OFF MY BRIDGE!” The woman is so startled by this voice from somewhere up there that she changes her mind, believing the voice was of a supernatural origin. Wonderful location filming of the bridge and surrounding areas of the Thames, including the interior of the turrets, the steam engines that control the bascules and the bascules themselves. It was given a Royal Premiere in London, attended by HRH Princess Margaret, and was very successful at the time. However, it’s never been released on DVD and the only place you can see it now is online at BFI player and you have to pay £2:50 to see the 87 minute film on the BFI website. Wonderful music score by Malcolm Arnold, too. Highly Recommended!
Sounds like a good video to watch. Thanks for the recommendation. I will check it out soon.
DAVID RAYNER
Fantastic upload. I've never understood why Tower Bridge had Traffic Signals instead of Wig-Wags.
Thank you very much! I agree. These traffic lights have been here since 1990 I think. In my opinion, the flashing red lights on a wigwag would be more visible to a motorist than a single red on a traffic light. They might upgrade them at some point.
tradition
When level crossings were first used they had gates and no traffic lights.
Swing bridges over rivers had traffic lights long before railway crossings did, and they used standard road traffic lights so that no new legislation was needed. Same with fire stations and where roads cross aircraft approah areas (eg RAF Northolt).
After wigwags came in with railway level crossings it was still a long time till they were used for those other applications.
Eventually wigwags and barriers replaced the road traffic lights and gates and it took over two decade for all the changes to be made.
At a few historic locations, like Tower Bridge, it was felt that the newer system would be out of character for the setting. Tradition is a powerful thing, especially when Tourist Money is involved.
The other tradition seen here is the time-honoured disdain that two-wheeled traffic shows for traffic control. All those cycles and motorbikes that move into the space between the lights and the gates are in fact breaking the law. They all could get fined (yes even the cyclists) and the motorcyclists could get points on their licences. In practice they are never charged unless they act very dangerously.
I have been to London a lot of times but have never seen tower bridge opening for real I have only seen it open on tv.
They need to put a red light camera on there - they'd make a fortune....
Yeah, definitely. Too much people jump the traffic lights here, mainly because they know they're going to have to wait 10 minutes for the bridge to raise :/
Of course all those violators are tourists because the British would NEVER do such a thing. ;-)
Haha you wish 🙄
No, they're manually turned to red by the bridge operator
I think that the police should occasionally be stationed at this bridge to hand out fines to people who jump the red light at Tower Bridge....
I have been under there when it was being lifted and inside the towers, way cool
Awesome. There's lots of machinery underneath to lift the road segments upwards. One time I might stand on the glass floor and watch it lift. You get a great view from up there.
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sean sean yep you live in london fucking nell that's far you really spent hours to get to Preston jesus
Wait is the bridge opening
Tadas Šimkus yes it is for propably a boat or ship to pass the bridge without it collapsing or waiting behind it btw it's a beautiful
Place but it's pricey with a 500 to 900 quid a week rent and 500k to 2500k sale but there's 3 airports 2 rail systems buses boats and even subways and Heathrow pods at Heathrow airport and they are like the best transport system ever says a lot of Londoners and there's 100s of theatres across the city and one of the many London parks and even the museums are free and I recomend you to walk on the south bank it's wonderful and it's home to supercars too due to the price to live there
That kid in the green t-shirt and blue shorts fancies himself! 😜
Lol, that's my over-excited younger brother on camera.
I thought he looked like he knew you. Either that, or he's very friendly with strangers.
He was too excited lol C:
Great vid Jamie
Oliver Kirkby Thanks Oliver C:
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Strange how they haven't bothered investing into upgrading the signals.
Yeah. I know. Considering how busy the traffic is, everyday, I would have expected the old GEC Halogen Traffic Lights to be changed to some, possibly, Unipart Rail LED wigwags.
The signals don't need to be upgraded, they accomplish the job tasked to them. There are two signals on each approach. They likely use red-yellow-green instead of wig wags due to the high percentage of tourists from abroad who would understand a red signal as opposed to a wig wag.
I understand your point. I'm just saying that all over the UK, traffic lights and halogen wigwags are being upgraded to LED types. Many lift bridges now have LED lights too. As-well as this, flashing reds instead of a still red may seem more of a "warning" to road users as-well as pedestrians. Pedestrians also have loud warning alarms to alert them to clear the bridge.
Why should it be updated? There's no need - there isn't any faults, everyone can understand a red light.
Dylan Fox What vehicles can pass through when the bridge is open? The style of traffic light makes not one jot of difference!
Amazing experience. Thanks for upload. Enjoying u r video
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed the video :)
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Fantastic video mate
Thank you very much!
UK Railway Hub your very welcome mate.
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tower bridge opend and closed twice today for the same boat on 9/9/2017
The bridge opens on average twice a day. I was glad I saw it raise again.
MYYY GODDD ITS SOOOOO LONDON TOWER BRIDGE (FULL BRIDGE OPERATIONEYYYYY) HOIIIIIoiiiii BWARRRRR
Noo.
And instantly the bridge reopens, a white van man has to try and force his way through.
He has the right too. Them cyclists are a pain in the arse. It’s called a road not a cycle Lane.
Lol instead of a level crossing they use traffic lights 😂
great video
Thanks. I miss the old signals here.
Am I right in thinking the traffic light on the bridge have been replaced? Also, cool video.
nobody:
wind:*HELLLLOOOOOOOOOOOUUU*
Yeah ik 😂
Там ещё на левом берегу есть чел который на всю улицу кричит ап стеир ту же бридж, это у него работа такая? Кто шарит?
Nice!
Thanks!
The young boy in the green tee-shirt seems to know the cameraman.
Yes. That's my 12 year old brother who seems awfully excited to be filmed for one of my videos.
I ruined the 444 likes by liking it
Lol, well thanks for liking it anyway 😉
I love how all the cyclists still jump the lights despite the fact that they can't actually get anywhere.
All those people should be fined asap for jumping a red light
Well they could never be in trouble for it,they aren't doing no hsrm and anyway they cannot get anywhere while the Bridge is up
Those Mellors were GEC Elliot but now the copycat company of Siemens replaced them
I'm sure the lights there now are LED Motus sets?
@@UKLevelCrossingsChannel Yep and they're extremely cheap and horrible
The wind really was not on your side here was it. Lol
No it wasn't lol
Inception IRL :-).
cool. if it aint broke , dont fix it.
If you're talking about the traffic lights, they have already been replaced with LED Motus signals. Have a look at a more recent video.
They change into motors?
Are you talking about the traffic lights?
yes
Yes, these lights were replaced by 'Motus' LED lights in 2017
@@UKLevelCrossingsChannel yep correct oh I thought they was called motors?
No, they're called 'Motus'. The name is stamped on the back of them if you ever see them. I think they were made by Motus Traffic Ltd.
nick everyone of the cyclists and motorcyclists before the white van for red light jumping
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