Newport Bridge, connecting Stockton and Middlesbrough across the River Tees, is a popular route for Hartlepool drivers ...

A road bridge spanning the River Tees is to close for the second summer in a row for major maintenance works.Newport Bridge, which opened in 1934, is thought to be the first vertical lift bridge in ...

A detailed assessment is being undertaken, but the bridge is likely to remain closed for several weeks. The Transporter lift and Visitor Centre will also remain closed while the work is carried out.

The new glass viewing lift will give visitors amazing views across Teesside's diverse landscape from the Tees Transporter Bridge A 107-year-old dream has been realised with the arrival of a new ...

After long delays, Middlesbrough's iconic Transporter Bridge will finally be back in action next week following the near-completion of the biggest overhaul in its 103-year history.

The iconic Tees Newport Bridge turns 90 - and an entire generation has never seen it lift The Tees Newport Bridge has been standing for 90 years after it was opened on February 28, 1934 by the ...

In 1999, I was one of those students, and the memory that will always stick with me is seeing the Transporter Bridge – Middlesbrough folk simply call it "The Transporter" – straddling the Tees.