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So the bridge went down hill in a hurry once that rot started to take hold. So all of the people who had been going out there to look at it had been looking at it through this funny lens of, if something is damaged then it surely needs to be replaced because that's the way that the railwaymen treated the bridge themselves because they have to carry trains.

What we were looking at was, with a slightly different value, we said, we sort of approached it by thinking, the bridge itself is quite beautiful in its precarious decayed form. It is actually quite attractive as well, I don't mean for that to sound silly, it's just that the lovely patina of the old wood is what should be saved, not viewed as a negative. So we tried to look at innovative ways to repair the bridge and initially from the perspective of working our way bent to bent to bent across the bridge, making repairs from one end to the other. And then also we considered the new loading because obviously it's being used as a pedestrian bridge now...rather than carrying trains, so you can apply different criteria.