View from SW showing SW front of swing bridge with part of Bascule Bridge in background and Custom House in foreground
SC 677809
Description View from SW showing SW front of swing bridge with part of Bascule Bridge in background and Custom House in foreground
Date 11/6/1966
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 677809
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Railway swing bridge, Bowling Harbour, Forth & Clyde Canal, West Dunbartonshire This bridge was built to carry the Lanarkshire & Dumbartonshire Railway, which opened in 1896, over the Forth & Clyde Canal, which was diverted at this point. The bridge was hydraulically operated, and controlled from a signal box on a gantry over the railway. This shows the bridge from the south-west, with the custom house and canal office on the left. The hydraulic pumping station was behind the latter. The mechanism for turning the bridge was housed in the mass concrete abutment on the left. This bridge ceased operation in 1962, when the Forth & Clyde Canal was closed to through navigation, and the machinery was removed. The railway closed in 1964. The bridge structure is still there. The Forth & Clyde Canal was reopened throughout in 2001as part of the Millennium Link project. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/66/16/0
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