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Glasgow, Old Dumbarton Road, Railway Bridge

Railway Bridge (19th Century)

Site Name Glasgow, Old Dumbarton Road, Railway Bridge

Classification Railway Bridge (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) River Kelvin; 'rail Bridge Near Old Dumbarton Road'; Bishop's Mill Weir; Partick; Yorkhill

Canmore ID 197365

Site Number NS56NE 2758

NGR NS 5631 6632

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council Glasgow, City Of
  • Parish Glasgow (City Of Glasgow)
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District City Of Glasgow
  • Former County Lanarkshire

Archaeology Notes

NS56NE 2758 5631 6632

See also NS56NE 1074.01.

Bridge built c. 1896 for the the Lanarkshire and Dunbartonshire Rly. A two-span plate-girder bridge over the [River] Kelvin, with the central pier on the weir (NS56NE 1074.01) of Bishop Mills.

J R Hume 1974.

(Noted as 'Rail bridge near Old Dumbarton Road). This simple three-span metal plate-girder structure was built about 1896, and cross the River Kelvin at a low level. One of its two masonry piers is built on the weir (NS56NE 1074.01) of the former Bishop's Mill. The bridge is long disused and somewhat overgrown, but remains substantially intact. Reinstatement is not currently proposed.

D Boyce 1996.

This bridge formerly carried the Lanarkshire and Dunbartonshire Rly's branch to the Pointhouse yard (NS56NE 1449) over the River Kelvin, which here forms the boundary between the parishes of Govan (to the N) and Glasgow (to the S). The line was built by the Lanarkshire and Dunbarton Railway, and curves over the bridge.

The location assigned to this record is approximately central to the structure. The available map evidence suggests that it extends from NS c. 56282 66338 to NS c. 56334 66302.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 1 December 2005.

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