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• Society: History: By Topic: Disasters (19)

• Awful Plunge - Newspaper articles from the Victoria Colonist, 1896, detailing the collapse of the Point Ellice bridge on 26 May 1896.
• Br 169 Lancaster and Carlisle Line - Glanrhyd Bridge, 1987. Collapse of steel/masonry rail bridge in Wales, owing to scour. Summary of background and later preventative work to other bridge in Penrith, England, with map, photographs and drawings.
• Learning from Failure: Engineering Disasters - Statistics on the cause of engineering failures and the ethics thereof.
• Maccabiah Bridge Collapse Blame Falls Far and Wide - Collapse of foot bridge in Jerusalem, 1997. News article detailing what went wrong.
• Mark Ketchum's Bridge Collapse Page - Pictures and descriptions of a few collapsed bridges, such as the Tacoma Narrows and the Koror-Babeldaob bridge.
• Merrillan Bridge Collapse - Collapse of a concrete rail bridge over a creek in Wisconsin, 1968. Includes two large amateur photographs of the wreckage.
• Point Ellice Bridge Disaster - Short description of the collapse of wooden bridge on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, 1896, under weight of tramway car.
• Rainbow Bridge Collapse, 1938 - Photograph, from Vintageviews of New York, of this iron bridge after its collapse.
• Rush Street Bridges - The Encyclopedia of Chicago provides an illustrated article on the collapse of an iron bridge in Chicago in 1863, and on the fate of other bridges built subsequently.
• Walnut Street Bridge (Harrisburg) - Information from Wikipedia on the collapse of a steel framed bridge in Pennsylvania in 1996, owing to scour and ice damage.
• Wood Bridge Failure Analysis - Analyses of failed private wooden bridges by Charles C Roberts, with photographs.

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