View from N looking down canal with sluice exit on right

Description View from N looking down canal with sluice exit on right

Date 1970

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 769243

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Canal spillway (overflow), Ruchill, Forth & Clyde Canal, Glasgow This shows the spillway from the canal towpath looking south. When the level of the water in the canal is too high, water runs over a weir in the arch on the right, down a stone-lined channel, and through an arched culvert into the diverted burn. The towpath runs over the top of the arch. Spillways of this character are standard canal features, but this one is unusually substantial. When it was built the Glasgow Branch of the canal still carried a heavy traffic in timber, coal and grain, as well as passenger boats, so this spillway had a significant public presence. This spillway is on the Glasgow Branch of the Forth & Clyde Canal. It was probably built in the mid-1890s, when the course of the burn into which it discharges was diverted to allow the Lanarkshire & Dumbartonshire Railway to be built. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/55/16

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/769243

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap