February Quiz - Day 23

does it mean theat the piller thingy was made in Glasgow in 1889? ;D ;D

I know exactly where it is - the structure concerned was rebuilt a few years ago. Once the answer has been given, I'll give a few details about the rebuilding

Perhaps I should have stated that the structure was practically rebuilt a few years ago

I was going to say Putney Bridge river crossing built around 1889 but Solidbond has thrown me! Well it did undergo major refurbishment in 1997.

When you say rebuilt, you possibly mean not in its original place? That looks like the end plate of a bridge girder but facing the wrong way and the closeness of vegetation is confusing matters.

No - it was all but rebuilt. (Well, unless I have got it completely wrong, in which case I'm going to have a lot of egg on my face ;D ;D ;D)

Just had confirmation that I have got the right location (phew ;D) Just to say that so far all the answers have been looking at the wrong part of the line

The right answer still hasn't been posted on this thread, but Solidbond has sent me the correct answer by PM.

I will post the answer about midday.

As promised, a little info about the 'rebuilding' of the bridge.
Some years ago, it was discovered that the track on the E/B was having problems with the packing slipping out, so a 10mph restriction was imposed. P-Way carried out the appropriate work to deal with the problem, but within a matter of hours the packing was again slipping. Despite numerous attempts to rectify the problem, the packing kept slipping.
Consequently, more detailed checks were carried out, and it seems that the method of laying the track over the bridge was unique - there was no other bridge within LU (and I believe the whole of the UK ) that used the same method. Unfortunately, there was also no record of how it was actually done, and as soon as anything was removed, it meant that there was no way of telling how it was installed in the first place
As a result, there were major works to replace the WHOLE of the track and underside of the bridge carried out, hence my comments about the bridge being practically rebuilt
The giveaway to me about where the pic was taken was that there was a big thing at the time of the major work about it being built in 1889 by a Glasgow firm ;D

Bridge D141 one of the few other lattice girder bridges - I even used to work with the resident engineer and designer of that job.

It was before my time but I believe the track used to be set on longitudinal timbers and were changed over to standard railway sleepers sitting in new steel troughs.