Major repair works to a bridge are well underway this weekend. The Kingsferry Bridge, which connects the Isle of Sheppey with the mainland, is shut so the 40 steel ropes which stabilise it when it lifts can be replaced. They were last replaced around 30 years ago and recent tests found some have degarded and urgently needed changing as they come to the end of their operational life. Network Rail is carrying out the maintenance works and has closed the bridge to drivers, pedestrians, cyclists and maritime traffic. Providing an update today (June 8), engineers said the work was “progressing well…