Basin Railway Bridge
Basin Railway Bridge carries a footpath over the Forth and Clyde Canal (Main Line) between Amberscroft and Wycombe.
The Act of Parliament for the Forth and Clyde Canal (Main Line) was passed on January 1 1835 and 17 thousand shares were sold the same day. Orginally intended to run to Trafford, the canal was never completed beyond Braintree. Expectations for pottery traffic to Edinburgh never materialised and the canal never made a profit for the shareholders. Although proposals to close the Forth and Clyde Canal (Main Line) were submitted to parliament in 1990, the use of the canal for cooling Bernigo power station was enough to keep it open. The one mile section between Wesshampton and Stockton-on-Tees was closed in 1888 after a breach at Sandwell. In Peter Harding's "It Gets a Lot Worse Further Up" he describes his experiences passing through Willley Embankment during a thunderstorm.

There is a bridge here which takes a disused railway over the canal.
| Portpatrick Road Bascule Footbridge | 4½ furlongs | |
| Bowling Lock Wharf | 1 furlong | |
| Bowling Lock No 38 | ¾ furlongs | |
| Bowling Lock Basin | ½ furlongs | |
| Basin Bascule Footbridge | a few yards | |
| Basin Railway Bridge | ||
| Bowling Basin | ½ furlongs | |
| Bowling Basin Sea Lock | ¾ furlongs | |
| The Bay Inn | 1¼ furlongs | |
| Clyde Canal Junction | 2 furlongs | |
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![Relocated gates. The decorative gates commemorating the Bowling Basin 1950 have been moved from their previous position on the other side of the canal [[6961168]] to here. by Richard Sutcliffe – 07 April 2025](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/08/01/52/8015282_3d8e42d4_120x120.jpg)
![Bowling swing bridge. Carries the disused Lanarkshire & Dunbartonshire Railway line over the Forth & Clyde Canal. The bridge no longer swings.See also [[713063]] & [[713073]]. by Thomas Nugent – 02 March 2008](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/photos/71/31/713102_8eb6c1bc_120x120.jpg)

![Work on disused railway bridge at Bowling. It is shown from another angle, on the same day, in [[5429455]]. [[713069]] is on the left.For what is just out of shot to the right, see [[5429481]]. by Lairich Rig – 02 June 2017](https://s3.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/05/42/94/5429463_083aaa61_120x120.jpg)
![Work on disused railway bridge at Bowling. For the earlier undraped appearance of the railway bridge, and for more about it, see [[907635]]. It is between the outer (on this side) and inner canal basins at Bowling.The white building on the left is [[713069]].For other, closer pictures taken on the same day as the present photograph, see [[5429463]], showing what is on the left, and [[5429481]], showing what is off to the right. by Lairich Rig – 02 June 2017](https://s3.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/05/42/94/5429455_2075f41e_120x120.jpg)




![Bowling canal basin. Looking under the swing bridge to the lower of the two basins at the west end of the Forth and Clyde Canal. The river Clyde is visible beyond the trees.See the swing bridge here [[4499340]]. by Thomas Nugent – 27 April 2015](https://s1.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/04/49/93/4499349_0401aa78_120x120.jpg)
![Bowling canal basin. Looking under the swing bridge to the lower of the two basins at the west end of the Forth and Clyde Canal. The river Clyde is visible beyond the trees.See the swing bridge here [[4499340]]. by Thomas Nugent – 27 April 2015](https://s3.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/04/49/93/4499347_e96fe637_120x120.jpg)
![Swing bridge, Bowling Basin. Built in 1896 to carry the Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway over the Forth and Clyde Canal. It is Category B listed http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB18845. The photograph was taken to replicate the first image for the square [[62292]], photographed in 2001 and submitted in 2005. by Richard Sutcliffe – 11 September 2021](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/06/95/93/6959362_30b61c37_120x120.jpg)
![Bowling canal basin. The upper of the two basins at the west end of the Forth and Clyde Canal. See also [[4499340]]. by Thomas Nugent – 27 April 2015](https://s3.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/04/49/93/4499343_845cd067_120x120.jpg)
![Bascule bridge at Bowling Harbour. For views from other angles, see [[713021]], [[713063]], and, from further away, [[907635]] and [[1472506]].There are similar bridges further east along the canal, between here and Dalmuir: see [[939735]] (which also explains the principle of operation), and [[1469777]] / [[2003854]]. by Lairich Rig – 17 June 2013](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/03/54/25/3542538_83f19716_120x120.jpg)


![Repainted millennium milepost. Until recently it was black: [[713028]]. by Lairich Rig – 05 October 2018](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/05/97/07/5970734_8f9ebabe_120x120.jpg)



![Behind the arches at Bowling. The structure shown here carried a railway line, now long gone. The arches beneath it are now used by small businesses. For a view from the other side of the railway bridge, see [[5129542]].For what is to the left of the photographer's position, see [[5429463]], taken on the same occasion as the present picture.An earlier picture shows what was (at the time that picture was taken) above the businesses: [[4143159]] (the course of a dismantled railway line). by Lairich Rig – 02 June 2017](https://s1.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/05/42/94/5429481_83d1083b_120x120.jpg)


