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View from SSW showing SSW facade.
SC 664463
Description View from SSW showing SSW facade.
Date 14/11/1965
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 664463
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Boulevard Swing Bridge, Great Western Road, Forth & Clyde Canal, Glasgow This bridge was built between 1928 and 1930 to carry Great Western Road, a new dual carriageway road to Loch Lomond over the main line of the Forth & Clyde Canal. This electrically-operated bascule bridge was designed by T Somers, and Sir William Arrol & Co Ltd, engineers. This shows the bridge from the south. The steel span is pivoted on the right side, and the control cabin can be seen at that end, bracketed out from the sandstone-clad abutment. Under the sandstone the abutments were made of reinforced concrete. This bridge was one of four similar structures built in about 1930 to carry major roads over the Forth & Clyde Canal, the others being at Blairdardie, Temple, and Torrance. This one was demolished in about 1968, and the canal culverted. A fixed bridge with navigable headroom was built in about 2000. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/65/27/13
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/664463
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