The Leamington Lift Bridge, built in 1906, originally allowed traffic to cross the Union Canal at Fountainbridge before being moved to its present location at Edinburgh Quay in 1922 when the canal was shortened to end at the Lochrin Basin.  It fell out of use by the 1960s, but as part of the Millennium Link project to restore the Union Canal it was restored and opened in 2002 and further restorations were made in 2019. It is now closed to traffic apart from cyclists and walkers.
The bridge is constructed from a wooden deck that can be raised between two gantries to give a clearance of 9 ft (2.7 m) below enabling a canal boat to pass beneath.   When the deck is raised pedestrians can walk across the adjacent lattice girder footbridge. I previously blipped it with a boat passing beneath.

I have been unable to find out how often the bridge was raised recently but in 2012 it was written that “The renewed mechanism began operating again in 2005 when the bridge was opened 810 times, increasing to 1072 times the following year. It was opened 872 times in 2011. The average number of openings is about 20 times per week in the summer months, April to October, dropping to about six times per week in the winter.” 

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