inchinnan bascule bridge

doors open day or in this case bridge open day just as well they got the pavement and the busy A8 road closed and its still not at the vertical !!
Little electric power from the motors is needed to lift it since it works on a counterweight/balance system
built 1923 it spans the River Cart once busy with ships and barges transporting boilers to the nearby Clyde for shipping from Babcock and Wilcox in Renfrew
Doosen Babcock a major international power engineering company still operate upstream and have their own quay so bridge openings are still needed and the bridge was restored fully in 2004