On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, Mark Brader wrote:

I believe that includes the only ever railway swing bridge.

Nope. The Oxford Companion to British Railway History says:

# Opening bridges were built across some navigable waterways,
# allowing shipping to pass. They were usually swing bridges,
# like

Like the bridge over Alresford Creek, on the Brightlingsea to Wivenhoe
railway, a mile or two from where i grew up. It was demolished long before
i was born, but i remember being told about it.

tom

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