Railway Swing Bridge, Port Dundas, Forth And Clyde Canal, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 February 1992. Railway swing bridge. 1 related planning application.

Railway Swing Bridge, Port Dundas, Forth And Clyde Canal, Glasgow

WRENN ID
little-soffit-lark
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
17 February 1992
Type
Railway swing bridge
OS grid reference
NS 592 666
Coordinates
55.87218, -4.25138
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Railway Swing Bridge at Port Dundas, built around 1890, is a single track swing span that crosses the Forth and Clyde Canal (Glasgow Branch). It features plate girder sides that are bowed in shape and pivots on the south side, equipped with hand operating gear. The bridge has stone abutments and protective wooden piling, which is now decaying. It was constructed to support the Caledonian Railway's Port Dundas branch during a period when direct connections to customers' premises were important for attracting traffic.

Local climate

Railway Swing Bridge, Port Dundas, Forth And Clyde Canal, Glasgow sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,290 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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