View of vertical lifting bridge on Union Canal, Gilmore Park, Edinburgh. General view.
SC 361770
Description View of vertical lifting bridge on Union Canal, Gilmore Park, Edinburgh. General view.
Date 1985
Catalogue Number SC 361770
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of A 62071
Scope and Content Lifting Bridge over the Union Canal at Gilmore Park, Edinburgh, from the west The Union Canal, designed by Hugh Baird as a canal to carry freight and passenger services between Edinburgh and Glasgow, opened in 1822. It ran from Lothian Road in Edinburgh and joined the Forth and Clyde Canal at Falkirk, a distance of 28 miles. This unusual bridge, close to the Edinburgh terminus, has a short electrically-operated lifting span, and a control cabin within its riveted steel framework. The lattice-girder footbridge (far side) could be used by pedestrians when the bridge was lifted. Today, the Union Canal enjoys a revival as a place of leisure and recreational interests. It is planned to reopen the canal to navigation, and, as part of a Millennium Link, to re-establish travel from 'city to city and coast to coast'. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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