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Braehead Viaduct
All photographs of this location in date order.
![66077 with a train of coal empties near the spot where the planned M8 extension will pass below the Whifflet line. Photograph taken on 12th December 2014.<br><br>[Colin McDonald 12/12/2014]](/images/49000/49766.jpg "Braehead Viaduct")
![66158 hauling a Hunterston-Longannet coal train passes the Braehead M8 viaduct construction site on 2nd April 2015. The line of the motorway can be seen in the background leading up to the temporary embankments on either side of the track where the piling work for the new railway viaduct is taking place.<br><br>[Colin McDonald 02/04/2015]](/images/50000/50853.jpg "Braehead Viaduct")
![A Dalmuir to Whifflet service passes as steel reinforcing arrives at the Braehead viaduct construction site on 2nd April. Work is also in hand at this site to construct a road bridge which will carry Bredisholm Road over the motorway extension on the north side of the railway. An impressive collection of plant is now assembled on both sides of the line ready for the first of the weekend line closures in April 2015.<br><br>[Colin McDonald 02/04/2015]](/images/50000/50862.jpg "Braehead Viaduct")
![One of the prefabricated steel reinforcements is lowered into place at the Braehead viaduct construction site during the weekend line closure on 4th April 2015. This will form one of the four main supporting columns for the viaduct [see image 46140: lower picture].<br><br>[Colin McDonald 04/04/2015]](/images/50000/50878.jpg "Braehead Viaduct")
![View south west at the first sections of the new Bargeddie railway viaduct which have now been brought to the site and are currently (11th May 2015) being welded together.<br><br>[Colin McDonald 11/05/2015]](/images/51000/51252.jpg "Braehead Viaduct")
![A Dalmuir - Motherwell service passes the construction site of the new M8 Bargeddie Viaduct on 11th May 2015. The line of old sleepers in the foreground shows the route of the former Tannochside branch of the Caledonian Railway.<br><br>[Colin McDonald 11/05/2015]](/images/51000/51260.jpg "Braehead Viaduct")
![Looking east at the construction site of the new M8 Bargeddie Viaduct on 11th May 2015. <br><br>[Colin McDonald 11/05/2015]](/images/51000/51282.jpg "Braehead Viaduct")
![End on view looking east showing contractors working on the deck of the bridge structure on 12th June 2015. The degree of curvature of the steel bridge can be clearly seen from this angle. The rectangular grey boxes are temporary cabins erected over the locations of the main welds to protect the welders from the elements.<br><br>[Colin McDonald 12/06/2015]](/images/51000/51623.jpg "Braehead Viaduct")
![The size of the structure can be appreciated in this view from the south west of the construction site on 12 June. The rectangular grey boxes on the left side of the structure are temporary cabins erected over the locations of the main welds to protect the welders from the elements. Completed welds can be seen to the right. [See image 51623]<br><br>[Colin McDonald 12/06/2015]](/images/51000/51629.jpg "Braehead Viaduct")
![View west on 12th June 2015 with contractors working on the deck of the new bridge at the Bargeddie end. The sections of the sides have been welded together and deck beams fitted.<br><br>[Colin McDonald 12/06/2015]](/images/51000/51637.jpg "Braehead Viaduct")
![View from the north of the new bridge under construction on 12th June 2015. The supporting columns for the bridge are already sunk in the embankments.<br><br>[Colin McDonald 12/06/2015]](/images/51000/51657.jpg "Braehead Viaduct")
![Grabshot from a passing train showing the eastern end of the new Bargeddie bridge on 29th June 2015.<br><br>[Colin McDonald 29/06/2015]](/images/51000/51813.jpg "Braehead Viaduct")
![Contractors working at the construction site of the new Bargeddie bridge on 29th June 2015, seen from a passing train. The bridge is due to be moved into position during a line closure from 11th - 26th July.<br><br>[Colin McDonald 29/06/2015]](/images/51000/51821.jpg "Braehead Viaduct")
![A Class 67 locomotive running light passes the Bargeddie Bridge construction site on 8th July 2015. The plant for moving the bridge to its final location is now in place below the structure itself.<br><br>[Colin McDonald 08/07/2015]](/images/51000/51903.jpg "Braehead Viaduct")
![The wheeled vehicles in place for lifting and moving the completed structure on 8 July. The work to move the bridge has now commenced. <br>
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<br><br>[Colin McDonald 08/07/2015]](/images/51000/51909.jpg "Braehead Viaduct")
![Detail of the heavy duty road vehicles being used to move the bridge structure on 8th July [see image 51909].<br><br>[Colin McDonald 08/07/2015]](/images/51000/51913.jpg "Braehead Viaduct")
![View south of the construction site from Brediholm Road on 8 July. Sleepers for the trackwork over the new bridge have started to arrive, and work is underway to remove the temporary embankments constructed on the north side of the line.<br><br>[Colin McDonald 08/07/2015]](/images/51000/51920.jpg "Braehead Viaduct")
![Another view of the Bargeddie bridge works taken from Tannochside Industrial estate on 10th July 2015. Note the original <I>Cutty Sark</I> bridge partially obscured by the new structure centre right [see image 14734]. <br><br>[Colin McDonald 10/07/2015]](/images/51000/51925.jpg "Braehead Viaduct")
![View south towards the centre of the new bridge on 12th July 2015. The OHLE, track work and ballast have been removed and there is a clear view through to the steelwork of the structure. The top of one of the central supporting columns [see image 50878] can be seen in the fenced off area to the right of centre of the picture.<br><br>[Colin McDonald 12/07/2015]](/images/51000/51947.jpg "Braehead Viaduct")
![The east (Cutty Sark) end of the new structure on 12th July 2015. The OHLE, track work and ballast have been removed and the piling previously inserted though the trackbed is now exposed.<br><br>[Colin McDonald 12/07/2015]](/images/51000/51958.jpg "Braehead Viaduct")
![View south over the construction site on 12th July 2015. The OHLE, track work and ballast have been removed and work is proceeding to construct the bridge abutments on the north side of the line. In the foreground, work has started to realign Bredisholm Road with a new accommodation bridge over the A8 and M8.<br><br>[Colin McDonald 12/07/2015]](/images/51000/51988.jpg "Braehead Viaduct")
![Banners were positioned on the new Bargeddie Bridge shortly before it began to be moved into place on the afternoon of 17th July 2015.<br><br>[Colin McDonald 17/07/2015]](/images/51000/51996.jpg "Braehead Viaduct")
![The new section of Bargeddie Bridge being carefully manoeuvred into position on the Mammoet transporters during a downpour on 17th July 2015.<br><br>[Colin McDonald 17/07/2015]](/images/52000/52022.jpg "Braehead Viaduct")
![View of the west end of the new bridge in the evening sunshine on 22nd July. The trackbed on the approaches to the bridge has now been restored and the bridge itself is ballasted and awaiting track laying.<br><br>[Colin McDonald 22/07/2015]](/images/52000/52050.jpg "Braehead Viaduct")
![A road/rail vehicle using the relaid down line while working on the new bridge on the morning of 24th July. The sleepers for the up line can be seen stored by the lineside. <br><br>[Colin McDonald 24/07/2015]](/images/52000/52069.jpg "Braehead Viaduct")
![This improbable consist is actually the result of a telephoto shot of the 0624 Motherwell - Milngavie service crossing a Virgin Voyager Polmadie - Edinburgh empty stock movement on the new Bargeddie bridge on 27th July 2015, the first day of operations over the new bridge.<br><br>[Colin McDonald 27/07/2015]](/images/52000/52083.jpg "Braehead Viaduct")
![318255 forming the late running 0904 service to Milngavie crosses the new bridge at Bargeddie on a sunny 7th August 2015. The carriageways of the new section of the M8 have still to be dug out from under the bridge.<br><br>[Colin McDonald 07/08/2015]](/images/52000/52188.jpg "Braehead Viaduct")
![A Dalmuir - Whifflet service crosses the new bridge at Bargeddie on a sunny 7th August 2015. The distinctive steelwork of the original <I>Cutty Sark</I> bridge can just be seen on the left.<br><br>[Colin McDonald 07/08/2015]](/images/52000/52193.jpg "Braehead Viaduct")
![The 0944 Glasgow - Inverness service, unusally a Class 158 unit and diverted to start from Glasgow Central due to the Queen Street High Level Tunnel works, is seen passing over the Bargeddie bridges just over a year after the M8 viaduct opened. The temporary embankments used in construction have long gone and the carriageways of the new M8 extension now run under the viaduct. The distinctive steelwork of the beginning of older 'Cutty Sark' bridge can just be seen on the left above the earthworks of the A8 realignment now under construction.<br><br>[Colin McDonald 29/07/2016]](/images/55000/55996.jpg "Braehead Viaduct")
![The 1015 Glasgow - Aberdeen service, diverted to start from Glasgow Central due to the Queen Street High Level Tunnel works, passes over the Bargeddie M8 viaduct just over a year after it opened. The temporary embankments used in construction have long gone and the carriageways of the new M8 extension now run under the viaduct. The eagle eyed viewer need have no concern over what appears to be a stowaway in a yellow hi-viz jacket sitting on the rear coupler, he is in fact working on the abutment for the new Bredisholm Road M8 overbridge.<br><br>[Colin McDonald 29/07/2016]](/images/56000/56009.jpg "Braehead Viaduct")
![Partly obscured by the remaining spans of the former Bredisholm Road bridge over the A8, a diverted Class 170 DMU speeds across the Bargeddie Bridges. In the foreground the new alignment for the A8 takes shape; the new section of the M8 will run alongside it, cutting through the present dual carriageway after passing under the new railway viaduct opened in 2015 [see image 46140].<br><br>[Colin McDonald 29/07/2016]](/images/56000/56073.jpg "Braehead Viaduct")
![A Whifflet – Dalmuir service crossing the Bargeddie Bridge which was constructed in 2015 as part of the M8 upgrade works. The spoil has long since been dug out from under the bridge deck [see image 52188] and the carriageways are currently (March 2017) being completed and joined up with the M8 at Baillieston.<br><br>[Colin McDonald 14/03/2017]](/images/58000/58413.jpg "Braehead Viaduct")
![The Braehead M8 viaduct has its rails treated by a Network Rail MPV unit on 11th November 2017. <br><br>[Colin McDonald 11/11/2017]](/images/61000/61665.jpg "Braehead Viaduct")
