Only the granite piers of this bridge remain visible

While the City of Glasgow Union Railway had bridged the Clyde and had its terminus on the north side (to become St Enoch Station) in 1876, the Caledonian Railway Company stopped at Bridge Street on the south side.

Finally, in 1878, after paying £95,000 in compensation to the Clyde Trustees, the first Caledonian Railway Bridge in the centre of Glasgow was built just downstream of Glasgow Bridge.

The bridge deck, which carried four tracks, was of wrought iron construction supported on Dalbeattie Granite piers founded on cast iron cylinders sunk into the riverbed.

Only the granite piers of this bridge remain visible, the tracks and girders have been removed in 1966-1967.

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