Girder bridge for the standard gauge

[Richie]

Looks fantastic Mel

 

[Andrew Foster]

Mel, looks good and well up to the standard now expected of you.
Could it become the entrance to a canal basin interchange? The canal must have come close to the cattle market in Welshpool but I don't know if there was a canal interchange with either of the railways.

Cheers Neil. Yes, the canal at Welshpool was within spitting distance of the cattle market (the bridge where the railway crossed it is still in situ), but I don't think there was a canal within several miles of the Kerry branch which is where Gooey is supposed to be. Something I'll have a think about though.

Cracking idea re. the number plates Pugs.

Didn't the Montgomery Canal go as far as Newtown, passing Abermule on the way?

It just so happens I've been scanning a lot of WLLR photos recently and here are some of the canal bridge at Welshpool, taken 29/7/2001.

The WLLR wanted to provide an interchange siding but the Cambrian Railways were against the idea due to possible competition (the canal was owned by the LNWR, if I remember correctly).

Thanks for posting those pictures! I've just finished a road bridge with a baulk deck, but couldn't lay my hands on a decent reference photo of one. There aren't many of them around.

Andrew