Leamington Terrace - Seagull

Leamington Lift Bridge

The bridge does exactly what it says on the tin and lifts out the way of canal boats just before the Lochrin Basin. It was designed by Sir W. G. Armstrong Whitworth, fabricated in Newcastle for the canal owners, the North British Railway, and installed in ca. 1906, not at this site but at Fountainbridge at the next road crossing to the north, just before the terminal basins of Port Hamilton and Port Hopetoun. Because of the decline in canal traffic, these basins were closed and filled in by 1922 and, as the canal then ended south of Fountainbridge, the bridge was dismantled in November 1922 and later re-erected at its present site.

The bridge, after finally ceasing to operate in the 1960s, was refurbished as part of the Millennium Link Project and has been in regular use since its re-opening on 22 March 2005.