Bridge 182a On Leeds Liverpool Canal – Bradley, 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 is a steel counterweight swing bridge and is also known as Snaygill swing bridge. It is an access bridge for a nearby farm which had its fields split into two when the canal was built. link

Unlike many nearby swing bridges this bridge carries reasonably high traffic levels and so has traffic lights and barriers attached.

The bridge is always locked in position across the canal and boat owners can use their sanitary station key to enable them to use the automated control panel to turm the traffic lights to red, drop the barriers and open the bridge.

The control panel has the following operating instructions.

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 OPERATINGINSTRUCTIONS SEE SCREEN BELOW

There are also three buttons on the panel, one to open the bridge, on to close the bridge and an emergency stop button.

Bridge Type: Swing Bridge Pedestrian Traffic: yes Bicycle Traffic: yes Vehicular Traffic: yes Railway Traffic: no Built: Not listed Span: Not listed

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