{"id":3697,"date":"2024-01-23T02:29:16","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T02:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/birkemheads-beautiful-bridges-2\/"},"modified":"2024-01-23T02:29:16","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T02:29:16","slug":"birkemheads-beautiful-bridges-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/birkemheads-beautiful-bridges-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Birkemhead’s Beautiful Bridges (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Four riayds cross the docks area of Birkenhead as on the modern map above. Two RED<\/span> roads (A roads), one GREEN<\/span> road (Trunk road) and, bottom right, one YELLOW<\/span> road (purely local). Each has a bridge over the water.<\/p><\/div>\n It is, in dact, a bascule<\/span>\u00a0lifting bridge. The deck is pivoted at one side and has a gurt big counterweight as seen in this modernised structure which fbb will identify later.<\/p>\n The deck can be raised to near vertical to allow maximum size of ships to pass through.<\/p>\n This open bridge shot adds another complication to your elderly blogger’s research. He who posted it is not sure where it is; which of the four bridges it might be. fbb (clever clogs) has worked out that it is NOT the same bridge with steam train as shown higher above!<\/p><\/div>\n Because the Bidston Dock, formerly a huge iron ore terminal …<\/p><\/div>\n … has been decommissioned and filled in, the bridge is barely necessary now and doesn’t swing …<\/p>\n … but the old control post temains.<\/p>\n … with some rather splendid but very basic traffic control.<\/p>\n Those rails are not for trams but for the aforementioned Birkenhead Docks railway network which we met in passing in yesterdays blog.<\/p>\n