Newport
— — the transporter bridge against a working sky.
Not only on a wall.
“A port city on the tidal river Usk, between Cardiff and the Severn estuary. The Newport Transporter Bridge has crossed the river since 1906, one of the last of its kind anywhere in the world, a high latticework gantry that carries a small gondola back and forth above the water. The medieval castle stands beside the river in the centre, and the old docks reach south toward the Bristol Channel. The Chartist march of 1839 ended here. The city was made a city in 2002 to mark the Queen's golden jubilee.
Newport, on ceramic.
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The place, in three passes.
Newport, in Welsh Casnewydd, is a city on the river Usk in south-east Wales, about 19 kilometres north-east of Cardiff and 19 kilometres west of the Severn crossing into England. The settlement grew around a Norman castle on the western bank of the Usk and expanded through the nineteenth century as a coal-export port serving the South Wales valleys. The city has a population of about 160,000, the third-largest urban area in Wales after Cardiff and Swansea. Newport was granted city status in 2002 to mark the Queen's golden jubilee, and is part of the Cardiff Capital Region.
The Newport Transporter Bridge, designed by the French engineer Ferdinand Arnodin and opened in 1906, is the steady landmark of the city skyline. It is one of only six working transporter bridges in the world and the longest of the three remaining in Britain, with a span of 197 metres and towers rising 74 metres above the high-water mark. A small platform, suspended from a travelling carriage, ferries up to six cars and a handful of foot passengers across the Usk. The bridge was given Grade I listed status in 1976 and has been undergoing major restoration through the 2020s.
Newport railway station sits in the centre of the city, on the South Wales Main Line, with direct services to Cardiff in about 12 minutes and to London Paddington in about 1 hour 40 minutes. The Transporter Bridge is around 2 kilometres south of the station, open to visitors when the carriage is running (operating seasons vary while restoration continues). Newport Castle, the fourteenth-century riverside ruin, is freely accessible from the riverbank path. The Riverfront Theatre, the Newport Museum and Art Gallery, and the old Newport Market arcade are within a short walk of the station and city centre.