"Bainsford Bridge, Falkirk"

Maker
Reliable Series
Production date
1905
 Description
View looking north of tram approaching Bainsford Bridge showing the gantries for the power cables, the bridge gates and an elegant electric street lamp of the style installed in association with the opening of Falkirk Power Station in 1903. The lamps were manufactured by the Falkirk Iron Company. Passers-by, including a boy leaning on a bicycle, are watching the tram approach.
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Photo
Maker
Production date
1905
Subject person
Subject place
Bainsford Bridge/Forth and Clyde Canal/Bainsford/Falkirk area
Main St/Bainsford/Falkirk area
Bankside/Bainsford/Falkirk area
Subject notes
The swing bridge was built in the summer of 1905 to carry the new trams. The Caledonian Railway Company, which owned the canal, objected to the original gantries shown here because they obstructed the towropes of the horse drawn barges. The tram company replaced them in 1906 with cantilevered gantries that spanned the towpath. Until then the trams stopped at either side of the canal.
Accession number
P13259

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