There were steps down from the platform to yet another lower bridge, at the level of the mud.
She could not bring herself to invite him to watch from the lower bridge, and compromised on, "I thought you'd want to know."
"And I shall be warning you to keep your heads down when we go under the low bridges."
There may have been a ferry at the location before 1955, or possibly a lower bridge.
The doctor stepped down to the lower bridge and took his normal position at the left side of the command chair.
After a moment Ella peered down too, as if over the side of a low bridge.
"On my way," she said, and dropped down the ladder to the lower bridge.
Then they rounded a hill, and there was another low bridge ahead.
The police also shut the lower bridge to vehicles as a safety measure.
I see only two men, and a bridge too low yet to be of much use to anyone.