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amcd wrote:Cumbo...
From the Glasgow : Scotland in Old Photographs book...
"To the left of the Jamaica Street bridge is the Central Station railway viaduct of 1876-8 built for the Caledonian Railway Co. which demolished an insalubrious area west of Jamaica Street to make way for Central Station. The Company added a second bridge immediately downstream between 1899 and 1905 when the station was enlarged."
I remember reading somewhere when the other viaduct was demolished... *searches google* aha.. http://www.jhowie.force9.co.uk/glasgowcentral.htm
"1961 when the old Clyde viaduct was demolished and all traffic was concentrated on the six tracks on the new viaduct."
EDIT. don't mean to steal James' thunder..
cumbo wrote:Fossil From that last photo I would say that some of the bridge on the right hand side going into Central has been removed exposing the pillar supports .....Any reason?
nodrog wrote:They are rather nice pillars!
I think I do have the book Howie is referring to; I'll see if I can dig it out & see if it gives any more detail on quite why it was demolished rather than just left. It was the older of the two bridges as I remember; perhaps that was something to do with it.
I do remember some discussion about possibly rebuilding the other bridge to help alleviate the congestion on the station approaches, especially once the Glasgow Airport link is operating. Of course, it'll never happen...
nuttytigger wrote:i hate the new departure boards, the ones for low level which i use could do with a clock on them, they just say time of the next train but you have no-way of knowing what time it actually is, anyone else agree with me??
The Modern Fossil wrote:nuttytigger wrote:i hate the new departure boards, the ones for low level which i use could do with a clock on them, they just say time of the next train but you have no-way of knowing what time it actually is, anyone else agree with me??
..you could use your watch, mobile phone clock or ask your fellow passengers what time it is.
-F-
gap74 wrote:From The Buildings of Scotland: Glasgow:
Of the first bridge, built in 1876-8 (engineer B.H. Blyth, of Blyth & Cunningham of Edinburgh), contemporary with the first part of Central Station, only the piers remain just upstream of the second (and current) bridge, the tracks and girders having been removed in 1966-7. For each pier two cast iron cylinders, 4.5m (15ft) diameter in the river and 4m (13ft) on the banks, were sunk to bedrock, filled with concrete and extended above the river bed with masonary, the outside stones being of Dalbeattie granite. The two granite shafts of each pier rise high out of the water and are still linked by arched cast iron frames placed there, by the engineer's admission, purely for ornament.
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