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Meaning of "bascule bridge"

bascule bridge: A bascule bridge is a type of movable bridge with a counterweight that balances the span during its opening and closing. It operates by tilting upward to allow boats or ships to pass underneath, then lowering back into place for regular traffic. This design is commonly used for bridges over waterways with regular marine traffic
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  • A movable bridge consisting of one or two opening leaves equipped with balancing and stabilizing counterweights that ease and speed up their operation.

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This crossing also uses a bascule bridge.
The existing bascule bridge will be locked down.
It is a double leaf rolling bascule bridge.
The bascule bridge here.
Scherzer rolling lift bascule bridge.
The first wooden bascule bridge that was built at this crossing.
When it was built it was the largest and most sophisticated bascule bridge ever built.
This bascule bridge.
Our entirely concreted installations are equipped with a platform rocks and a bascule bridge entirely computerized.
Barry designed a bascule bridge with two bridge towers built on piers.
The neighbourhood is linked to downtown Bilbao by a bascule bridge.
Double leaf bascule bridge.
On the upswing in the dead of winter . Jumped off the Bascule Bridge.
Single leaf bascule bridge.
It is a bascule bridge with a counterweight of 400 tonnes.

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A part of it is a Bascule bridge.
The bridge is a bascule bridge in a Scherzer rolling lift bridge configuration.
Thomas Ellis Brown produces an innovative design of rolling bascule bridge for Brooklyn.
Construction of a bascule bridge over the Estacio canal in San Javier Murcia.
It is a double-leaf bascule bridge.
Pelham Bridge is a bascule bridge located in the New York City borough of the Bronx.
The original bridge at this location was a 1924 bascule bridge.
The line crosses the Hunte on a bascule bridge to Oldenburg Hauptbahnhof.
The destroyed structure was replaced in 1927 with a double leaf bascule bridge.
The Slauerhoffbrug is a fully automatic bascule bridge named after the poet Jan Jacob Slauerhoff.
The Erasmus Bridge ( Dutch, Erasmusbrug ) is a combined cable-stayed and bascule bridge.
The central section of the Magere Brug is a bascule bridge made of white-painted wood.
Egernsund Bridge ( ) is a Danish bascule bridge that runs between cities Alnor and Egernsund.
St. Claude Avenue Bridge It is a bascule bridge with four vehicular lanes.
Single-leaf bascule bridge.
Pont basculant de la Seyne-sur-Mer is a former bascule bridge in La Seyne-sur-Mer in France.

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