Twechar Swing Bridge

Location type

Bridge

Name and dates

Twechar Swing Bridge

Opened on the Bairds of Gartshore's Railway.

Chronology Dates

  /  /1860William Baird & Co Forth and Clyde Canal Bairds of Gartshore's Railway
Open mines at Twechar, Twechar Swing Bridge laid across the Forth and Clyde Canal for the private line which ran from Kilsyth to Gartshore Loops on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway.
  /  /1962Forth and Clyde Canal
Twechar Swing Bridge, at 90 degrees to the canal, closed.