Date: 29/07/2015

A new 2,000 tonne railway bridge has been completed and slid into place over the M8 as part of a £500m project to upgrade Scotland^s motorway network.
Transport Scotland, which commissioned the work, has released a time-lapse video of the bridge being manoeuvred.
It will carry the Rutherglen and Whifflet line over the new M8, which is under construction to the south of the existing A8 in North Lanarkshire.
Work to upgrade the M8, M73 and M74 is due to be completed in spring 2017.

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A new 2,000 tonne railway bridge is completed and slid into place over the M8 as part of a £500m project to upgrade Scotland's motorway network.

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Carrying the R&C over the A8 (or the M8 missing link) in April 2007 is the structure referred to by many as The Cutty Sark Bridge, after the whisky ad which adorned it for many years. It is doubtful if the name McArthur Glen Designer Outlet Centre bridge will ever catch on in the same way.
Location: Bargeddie Bridge
Company: Rutherglen and Coatbridge Railway
28/04/2007 John Furnevel

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.
Location: Braehead Viaduct
Company: Rutherglen and Coatbridge Railway
12/12/2014 Colin McDonald

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.
Location: Braehead Viaduct
Company: Rutherglen and Coatbridge Railway
27/07/2015 Colin McDonald

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