Turnbridge Lift Bridge

53.648°N 1.775°W / 53.648; -1.775

Turnbridge Lift Bridge
Turnbridge Road Lift Bridge over Huddersfield Broad Canal
Coordinates	53°38′52″N 1°46′31″W
Carries	Motor vehicles
Crosses	Huddersfield Broad Canal
Locale	Turnbridge, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England
Official name	Turnbridge Road Lift Bridge (No. 17)[1]
Characteristics
Design	vertical lift
No. of spans	1
Piers in water	2
History
Opened	1865
Location

The Turnbridge Lift Bridge (also colloquially known as a Locomotive lift bridge) is a lift bridge which spans the Huddersfield Broad Canal at Turnbridge, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England. Officially known as Turnbridge, it is bridge number 17 on the Huddersfield Broad Canal.^[1]

Located at Quay Street, off St Andrews road (approx 300 Yards from the town centre),^[2] it opened in 1865 and replaced an earlier swing bridge. A combination of wheels, chains and counter-weights were used to lift the deck of the bridge out of the way of passing canal barges.^[3]

Previously windlass operated, it was refurbished in 2002 and is now electrically powered.

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  Viewed from Southern side of the Broad canal
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  Car passing over the bridge towards Watergate

See also

• List of Bridges for other notable bridges