Our thanks to Phillip Capper (PhillipC on Flickr), who lives in Wellington, New Zealand for sharing this beautiful photo of Robert Stephenson’s Railway Bridge and Thomas Telford’s Suspension Bridge in Conwy, Wales. (To see a larger version of this photo on Flickr, please click on the photo.) The following information is from Wikipedia:

Conwy Railway Bridge carries the North Wales Coast Line railway across the River Conwy between Llandudno Junction and the town of Conwy. The wrought-iron tubular bridge was built by Robert Stephenson, and is similar in construction to Stephenson’s other famous tubular bridge, the Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait. It was officially opened in 1849, but had been completed in 1848. Since the destruction by fire of Britannia Bridge in 1970, Conwy railway bridge remains the only surviving example of this means of construction undertaken by Stephenson. The Conwy railway bridge runs parallel to an elegant Suspension Bridge built by Thomas Telford, which is now in the care of the National Trust, and is open to pedestrians only. These crossings of the Conwy resemble in miniature the two greater crossings of the Menai Strait.

Conwy Suspension Bridge was one of the first road suspension bridges in the world. Located in the medieval town of Conwy in the traditional county of Caernarfonshire, North Wales, it is now only passable on foot. The bridge is now in the care of the National Trust. Built by Thomas Telford, the bridge spans the River Conwy next to the magnificent Conwy Castle (aka Conway Castle built 1283-1289), a World Heritage Site. It was completed in 1826 and replaced the ferry at the same point. Telford cleverly matched the bridge’s supporting towers with the castle’s turrets. The suspension bridge runs alongside the wrought iron tubular railway bridge built by Robert Stephenson. The crossing of the River Conwy has always been a problem and today the A55 road goes under the river by tunnel.

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