Bridge 197 On Leeds Liverpool Canal – Riddlesden, UK - Moving Bridges on Waymarking.com

The canal is 127.25 miles long and flows from the inland woollen town of Leeds to the coastal sea port of Liverpool, crossing the Pennines along the way. Work on the canal started in 1770 and built in a number of sections and was finally completed in 1816.

The canal is no longer operational for commercial traffic but is popular with leisure boaters.

This steel counterweight swing bridge is also known as Stockbridge swing bridge and carries Bar Lane over the canal.

The Moveable Bridges of Britain website tells us “John Powell reports that the old timber swing bridge was replaced around 2000 by a steel counterweighted swing bridge with aluminium plank decking covered with anti-slip surfacing, with power slewing, power wedging and interlocked road barriers and road traffic lights. This is a standard BW swing bridge design.

This bridge carries a moderately busy suburban road across the canal serving a residential district.

The area was dominated by large warehouse on the bank to the south west of the bridge, but this has been demolished since 2003.”

The bridge is always locked in position across the canal and boat owners carry the sanitary station key to unlock the bridge when they wish to pass along the canal. The bridge carries relatively high volumes of traffic for this type of bridge and so it has barriers and lights for the traffic. Although relatively busy the bridge is only wide enough for single file traffic.

The barriers and lights are electrically operated from a control panel operated by the boat owners.

There are the following operating instructions on the control panel.

SWING BRIDGE OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS

TO STOP BRIDGE IN EMERGENCY
PRESS EMERGENCY STOP PUSHBUTTON
ENSURE BRIDGE IS CLEAR OF PEDESTRIANS & TRAFFIC
BEFORE AND DURING OPERATION

FOR OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS SEE SCREEN BELOW

Bridge Type: Swing Bridge Span: 40 feet over a clear waterway width of 17 ft 6 inches. Pedestrian Traffic: yes Bicycle Traffic: yes Vehicular Traffic: yes Railway Traffic: no Built: Not listed

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