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  • Victorian railway swing bridge to be restored

    Victorian railway swing bridge to be restored

    by

    Hugh Dougherty

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    SCOTLAND’s largest, surviving, counterweighted swing bridge, opened in 1874, to carry trains and road traffic to Leith’s Albert Dock, is to be restored for pedestrian and cycle use by current owners, Forth Ports. The ‘A’ listed, Victoria Swing Bridge, designed by Alexander Rendel, built in riveted, wrought iron, steel and wood, by Skerne Ironworks of…

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