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View from S showing SW front
SC 782152
Description View from S showing SW front
Date 3/5/1971
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 782152
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Forth & Clyde Canal, Swing Bridge, Bonnybridge, Falkirk This shows the bridge from the south-west, with a footway cantilevered from its west side. The operating gear is on the other side, at the far end. The canal had been closed since 1962, but was still in good condition. This bridge was immediately adjacent to Smith & Wellstood's Columbian Foundry, and is the only crossing of the canal for several kilometres in both directions. It was rehabilitated in 1999-2001 as part of the Millennium Link project to re-open the Lowland canals to though navigation. This bridge was one of a number of plate girder swing bridges built over the Forth & Clyde Canal in the 1920s and 1930s to replace the standard wooden bascule bridges in locations where the traffic had increased beyond the point where the old bridges could cope. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/71/39/12
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/782152
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