Low Lane Swing Bridge - Kirk Bramwith, UK - Moving Bridges on Waymarking.com

The New Junction Canal
The New Junction Canal is a canal in South Yorkshire, England. It is part of the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation (S&SYN), although it was jointly funded by the Aire and Calder Navigation, and was opened in 1905. It links the River Don Navigation and the Stainforth and Keadby Canal with the Aire and Calder Navigation (Knottingley Canal). It is completely straight, and was the last canal built in England for commercial purposes.

It links the River Don Navigation and the Stainforth and Keadby Canal with the Aire and Calder Navigation (Knottingley Canal).

The Canal passes through a rural area which is mainly farmland, and most of the bridges are lift or swing bridges.

Most of the boats these days are leisure craft but there are still some commercial boats in use.

The bridge is automated and there is a control panel for use by boaters who must have a British Waterways Key to operate it and traffic lights stop the flow of road traffic across the bridge before it opens.

The current bridge is the third swing bridge on the site and was erected in 1977 to replace a bridge erected in 1960.

The new swing bridge comprises 2 No. steel half through plate girders with steel transverse beams and longitudinal aluminium plank decking surfaced with epoxy resin anti-skid surfacing. The bridge is powered by an electro-hydraulic system to operate the wedging and slewing mechanisms on an automatic basis. The bridge was originally provided with manually operated swing arm road barriers and solely operated by BW staff. In the 90's the manual road barriers were replaced with fully automatic drop-arm road barriers and interlinked wig-wag road signals using a standard control console at which point the bridge could be safely operated by the boater. link

Bridge Type: Swing Bridge Built: 01/01/1905 Span: 22.5 feet Pedestrian Traffic: yes Bicycle Traffic: yes Vehicular Traffic: yes Railway Traffic: no

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