The bridge originally carried the Chester to Holyhead railway across the Menai Strait. The road deck which now carries the A55 was added following the fire, something many say was a positive ...

The engineering was clever, the end result beautiful. When Britannia Bridge was damaged by fire in 1970, it was reconstructed as a dual-purpose crossing with a road deck above the railway.

North Wales Fire and Rescue Service was called to a property in Menai Bridge, Anglesey, on Wednesday evening, where the fire had spread from the garage into the conservatory and the main property ...

Works on Menai bridge will continue, despite previous hopes for it to be completed by December 2025. Skip to content. ... Tumble dryer fire spreads through home and next door garage.

Fire partially gutted a house on Anglesey and produced so much smoke it could be smelt across the Menai Strait. The blaze, in Menai Bridge, was later confirmed to have originated from a tumble ...

Until the fateful night of the 23 May 1970, Robert Stephenson's Britannia Bridge had stood solid, spanning the perilous Menai Straits with its innovative tubular steel construction for some 120 years.

Emergency teams from the RNLI, North Wales Police, North Wales Fire and Rescue Service, the Coastguard, and the Aeronautical Rescue Co-Ordination Centre rushed to comb the Menai Strait.

A search operation continued on Saturday morning, September 21, following reports that a person entered the water close to Menai Suspension Bridge on Friday, September 20. Shortly before 9:45am on ...

The Menai Suspension Bridge (Welsh: Pont y Borth or Pont Grog y Borth) is a suspension bridge spanning the Menai Strait between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales.

Maintenance works on the Menai Bridge began in 2023 and were previously delayed from August to December 2025, due to the discovery of defective hangers, which required "urgent replacement".