The city of Hull,England is separated by the river Hull, with many of the railway stations being upon the west of the river but the docks upon the east side, there was a necessity to cross the navigable river with many Rail and Road swinbriges of which there are 13 in total, plus a tidal barrier gate at the Rivers entrance.
Two of these were rail bridges, the one that survives now is the high level rail bridge , but just a few hundred metres awa6 lies Wilmington swingbridge, built to replace an earlier single track bridge that was also lower creating a bottleneck to road and rail traffic, the newer bridge being interlocked to several of the adjacent signalboxes and part of this video covers how that was achieved.
The bridge still survives though no longer carrying rail traffic, it’s survival mainly down to having a public right of way incorporated into the bridge since its inception and this is still maintained as part of a local cycle and walk route.
Our thanks to Hull museum and to Mr Nicholson for much of the signalling related material adding to the video for which I am very gratefull.
16 окт 2024
