Archaeology Notes

Event ID 800904

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS66SW 365 61344 62500

Location formerly cited as NS 6134 6249.

For Eastern (second) railway bridge at this crossing-point, see NS66SW 364.

Railway bridges, Dalmarnock, built [NS66SW 365] c. 1858 by G Graham, engineer, and [NS66SW 364] 1893-7 for the Caledonian Rly. Two iron bridges, each carrying two tracks. The western bridge [NS66SW 365] has three bowed lattice girder spans on triple cast-iron piers, and approach spans of normal plate girder type.

J R Hume 1974.

(Railway Bridges, Dalmarnock). Only relics survive of the first [Dalmarnock] bridge, a two-track iron girder bridge built in 1859-61. Engineer George Graham of the Caledonian Railway Co, possibly with Blyth and Cunningham. Some fine chunky castings; large-diameter vertical cylinders, three in line for each support, X-framed bracing panels between them and thick I-beams spanning across their tops. The girders, deck and track have gone.

E Williamson, A Riches and M Higgs 1990.

This bridge formerly carried the Glasgow (Central) - Bridgeton - Rutherglen suburban line of the former Caledonian Rly over the River Clyde, which here forms the boundary between the parishes of Glasgow (to the N) and Rutherglen (to the S). It is situated about 10m W of the later bridge (NS66SW 364), and skew to the river.

The cited location defines the centre of the span. The bridge is depicted (but not noted) on the relevant sheets of the OS 1:1250 map, both of which date from 1968. It appears to have extended from NS c. 61334 62543 to NS c. 61355 62430.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 14 December 2005.