The Cuckoo Bridge
Introduction
The photograph on this page of The Cuckoo Bridge by G Laird as part of the Geograph project.
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The Cuckoo Bridge
Image: © G Laird Taken: 18 Jan 2009
Despite appearances now to the contrary, until the mid 1960s it was possible to drive any car under this bridge along Excelsior Street which connected Shields Road and Craigneuk Street, the 2 main roads between Motherwell and Wishaw. Though just accessible by foot now from the north, it is now blocked from the south. This bridge still carries the railway line at Shieldmuir junction where the Wishaw line branches off from the main south railway line.
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Image Location
Latitude
55.775051
Longitude
-3.952084
