Michaelson Road Bridge

Michaelson Road Bridge is a road bridge connecting Central Barrow to Barrow Island in south Cumbria, England. The original high-level bridge was a swing bridge and then replaced by a pair of lift and roll bridges constructed between 1800 and 1884 then superseded by a more modern pair of bascule bridges in the mid-1960s.^[1] It was built at a time when Barrow Island was actually an island and there was strong call for road access between mainland Barrow at the shipyard on Barrow Island. Traffic on the bridge was soon relieved when an old Victorian dock was filled in and space was created for the huge Devonshire Dock Hall complex, traffic now runs along the north side of the building on the A590.

Michaelson Road Bridge
Michaelson Road Bridge in 2014 looking north
Coordinates	54.1082°N 3.2286°W / 54.1082; -3.2286
Carries	Michaelson Road – motor vehicles, pedestrians
Crosses	Devonshire and Buccleuch Docks
Locale	Barrow-in-Furness
Official name	Michaelson Road Bridge
Other name(s)	Barrow Island Bridge
Characteristics
Design	Bascule bridge
Total length	315 m (1,033 ft)
Longest span	112'-6"
History
Opened	1884 (Original bridge) 1967 (Current bridge)
Location

Trams formerly operated across the bridge, but now it solely used for vehicles and pedestrians. A second Devonshire Dock footbridge is planned in the multimillion-pound Waterfront Barrow-in-Furness development.

See also

• Cumbria portal

• Barrow-in-Furness
• Barrow Island
• Port of Barrow