File:Galton Bridge - Smethwick - direction signs - Canal Cycleway (7372704388).jpg

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Another nice day in June free of rain, so I decided to try my new Fujifilm FinePix S2980 out at Smethwick Galton Bridge (including the railway, bridges and canals).

Taken from Galton Bridge.

Galton Bridge is Grade I listed.

Galton Bridge Including Attached Railway Bridge Span, Roebuck Lane Birmingham Canal Birmingham Level, Smethwick

In the entry for

   SANDWELL MB BIRMINGHAM CANAL
   9/13
   18/13 Birmingham Level,
   Smethwick
   Galton Bridge,
   Roebuck Lane
   The address shall be amended to read:
   BIRMINGHAM CANAL
   Birmingham Level,
   Smethwick
   Galton Bridge including
   attached railway bridge
   span, Roebuck Lane
   The following shall be added at the end of the description:
   Later C19 section over railway to south-west has similar brick and stone abutments,
   the north-eastern a continuation of that of the earlier section. Single rounded
   brick arch with cast iron railings and lamps.
   ------------------------------------
   SANDWELL MB BIRMINGHAM CANAL
   SP 0189 SW
   SP 08 NW Birmingham Level, Smethwick
   9/13 Galton Bridge,
   18/13 Roebuck Lane
   2.8.72
   I
   Road bridge, now footbridge, over New Main Line of Birmingham Canal. 1829
   by Telford. Cast iron. Brick abutments have some sandstone dressings.
   Single segmental arch of 150 foot span carries road across Smethwick cutting.
   Arch formed by girders pierced in lattice pattern, with lattice bracing in
   spandrels. "Horsley Iron Works 1829" is said to be cast in four places.
   "Galton Bridge" is cast above the centre on each side. Cast iron railings
   terminate at stone piers with Gothic blind tracery. Named after Samuel
   Tertius Galton, one of the BCN committee.


   Listing NGR: SP0150289342

Direction signs for cyclists on NCN 5.

Canal Cycleway
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Galton Bridge - Smethwick - direction signs - Canal Cycleway

Author Elliott Brown from Birmingham, United Kingdom
Camera location52° 30′ 07.45″ N, 1° 58′ 45.94″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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