General Information
| Other name(s): | Locomotive lift bridge |
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| Completion: | 1865 |
| Status: | in use |
Project Type
| Function / usage: |
Road bridge |
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| Structure: |
Vertical lift bridge |
Location
| Location: |
Turnbridge, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom |
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| Location description: |
Across Huddersfield Broad Canal |
| Coordinates: | 53° 38' 51.94" N 1° 46' 30.99" W |
Technical Information
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Excerpt from Wikipedia
The Turnbridge Lift Bridge (also colloquially known as a Locomotive lift bridge) is a lift bridge which spans the Huddersfield Broad Canal at Turnbridge, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England. Officially known as Turnbridge, it is bridge number 17 on the Huddersfield Broad Canal.
Located at Quay Street, off St Andrews road (approx 300 Yards from the town centre), it opened in 1865 and replaced an earlier swing bridge. A combination of wheels, chains and counter-weights were used to lift the deck of the bridge out of the way of passing canal barges.
Previously windlass operated, it was refurbished in 2002 and is now electrically powered.
Text imported from Wikipedia article "Turnbridge Lift Bridge" and modified on July 23, 2019 according to the CC-BY-SA 4.0 International license.
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data sheet - Structure-ID
20050443 - Published on:
14/12/2009 - Last updated on:
05/02/2016
