Bridge 182a On Leeds Liverpool Canal – Bradley, UK
Posted by: dtrebilc
N 53° 55.851 W 002° 00.076
30U E 565574 N 5976290
The Leeds Liverpool canal is the longest canal in Northern England.
Waymark Code: WMMKDR
Location: Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 10/02/2014
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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.
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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.