Wigton Bridge
John
Graham and Norman Copeland of Mirehouse remove the old road surface with pick,
shovel, and wheelbarrow
Joe
Bell of Workington drills up the road surface at the start of the operation.
Huge
cranes lower one of the concrete posts which take the weight of the cross
sections. the bridge is now capable of taking all traffic.
Cyril
Scott of Aspatria prepares the surface of one of the stones.
Billy
Dalziel, and acetylene welding equipment.
Joining
together some of the pre-fabricated concrete road sections.
Jim
Routledge of Whitehaven and John Graham.of Mirehouse help to position one of
the sections.
One
of the largest sections is swung in to place
Joe
McCracken and Jack Cannon of Workington steady one of the concrete sections.
Derwent
Railway Society
In early 1968 British
Railways Civil Engineering Department (Workington area) replaced four bridges.
Each one was replaced on a Sunday in order to minimise disruption to traffic.
This sequence of images illustrates the replacement of the road overbridge near
Wigton carrying the road to Silloth.
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