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The Falkirk Wheel is a rotating boat lift in Scotland, connecting the Forth and Clyde Canal with the Union Canal. The wheel raises boats by 24 metres (79 ft), and is the only rotating boat lift of its kind in the world. It was fully constructed and assembled at the Butterley Engineering plant in Ripley, Derbyshire. The structure was then dismantled in the summer of 2001, and transported on 35 lorry loads to Falkirk, before being reassembled into five sections on the ground and lifted into place. The caissons or gondolas carry a combined weight of 500 tonnes of water and boats, with the gondolas themselves each weighing 50 tonnes. The official opening was in 2002.

Pequonnock River Bridge on Stratford Avenue, Bridgeport, Connecticut was built in 1975 as a replacement for a double span bascule bridge.

Lift bridge that once carried the Soar Lane Branch railway over the Soar Navigation at Leicester. This bridge was built in 1845 to replace an identical structure of 1833, It now stands outside the main exhibition building at Snibston Discovery Park.

Scherzer rolling lift bridge on the dock road between Stanley and Collingwood Docks in Liverpool. This bridge no longer operates, but has been externally restored by Peel Ports.

Designed by Mott, Hay and Anderson and built by Dorman Long, this bridge was opened in 1934. It was the first large vertical lift bridge in Britain. With the decline in shipping using this stretch of the Tees the lifting apparatus was decommissioned in 1990.

The Strépy-Thieu boat lift was designed during the Canal du Centre's modernisation program in order to replace a system of two locks and four 16-metre lifts dating from 1888 to 1919. Building started in 1981 and was completed in 2002 after which 1350 tonne standard barges were able to pass between the Meuse and Scheldt rivers. It is the tallest boat lift in the world with a rise of 73.15 metres.

The cliff lift at Saltburn-by-the-Sea is one of the oldest in the world having opened on 28th June 1884 having replaced a vertical lift that was closed in 1883 on safety grounds. This standard gauge funicular railway operates on the water balance system and raises passengers up the 120ft cliff on a gradient of 1:1.33. The bottom station for the lift is situated behind the red and cream painted buildings which are associated with the 1869 pier on which I was stood.