Reconstructing the Gobbins Path
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
Gavin Wilson
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| Medium: | conference paper | ||||
| Language(s): | English | ||||
| Conference: | IABSE Symposium: Engineering for Progress, Nature and People, Madrid, Spain, 3-5 September 2014 | ||||
| Published in: | IABSE Symposium Madrid 2014 | ||||
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| Page(s): | 1505-1511 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 7 | ||||
| Year: | 2014 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/222137814814067563 | ||||
| Abstract: |
The Gobbins Path, located in Islandmagee, Northern Ireland, was a dramatic coastal walk first opened in 1902. The path, designed and built by Irish engineer Berkley Deane Wise, required many bridges to cross between rock outcrops and inlets, including spectacular structures such as the Tubular Bridge, shown in fig. 1. Fig.1: Bridges of the original Gobbins Path and a postcard showing the Tubular Bridge During the Second World War, the Gobbins Path was temporarily closed. Despite strengthening works to a number of structures after the war, high maintenance costs forced the path's closure in 1961. In 2013, Larne Borough Council launched a project to reconstruct a section of the original Gobbins Path to provide a major tourist attraction for the area. This new scheme incorporated the construction of stainless steel bridges, with the design completed to date the focus of this paper. |
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| Keywords: |
bridge stainless steel restoration marine Gobbins Northern Ireland
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