An interesting freature at the Mountsorrel and Rothley Community Heritage Centre. This bridge was designed to get the reailway over a canal, without blocking navigation.
You can read the full history on the Centre website.
I'll admit to being a little bemused by this when I saw it in real life, but having read up on it, what a fascinating device - and very modelable too. You wouldn't even need motors, if simplicity was the aim. Four cords running down under a baseboard, would do the job. Whatever you did though, this would be a crowd-pleaser on an exhibition layout.
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I do like a nice lifting bridge https://www.flickr.com/photos/jimbofin/9955773924/in/album-72157635924236515
The bridge was great to see, when I had a chance to venture out and record it. The whole venue offers more than it's small footprint would suggest and having been on the GCR previously, I'm surprised it isn't advertised more, to encourage people to check it out as part of their day.
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