Swing bridge fails again

Published: Friday, 15 June 2018

IT WAS just over a month ago that the Crabtree Swing Bridge on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal failed, but it has done so again.

CrabtreeLast time it was a 'structure failure' and this time—another 'structure failure', Keith Gudgin tells us.

Seven failures

This year there have been seven swing bridge failures on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal, that surely must point to a lack of maintenance and Canal & River Trust's obvious new policy of 'wait until it break then mend it'!

Perhaps they all need replaceding having reached their 'use by' date.

LATEST:

The bridge has now been repaired and in working.