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Monday 8 Oct 2018

£2m upgrade for Dumbarton rail bridge

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Scotland’s Railway: Scotland

Network Rail engineers will carry-out a vital £2m project to renew the rail bridge over Bonhill Road in Dumbarton this month.

The current bridge is beginning to degrade and needs to be replaced to ensure a safe and reliable rail service through the town.

Railway services will be replaced by buses over the weekend of October 20-21 while the old bridge deck is craned out and the new one positioned into place.

In order to replace the bridge, there will also be a series of road closures:

• Until October 13  – overnight temporary traffic lights on Townend Road
• October 13 to 28 – closure of Bonhill Road, from Round Riding Road to south of railway bridge
• October 13 to 28 – closure of Bankend Road from Townend Road to Bonhill Road 
• October 20  – a series of four 1 hour-long road closures on Townend Road (to allow bridge decks to be moved)
• October 22 to 23 – overnight temporary traffic lights on Townend Road.

Owen Ferry, Network Rail project manager, said: “The work we are undertaking is vital to the long-term operation of the railway. We understand the inconvenience the work will cause to some motorists and are committed to completing the project as quickly as possible.

“This is the most effective and quickest way to deliver the project, and we working hard to try to limit the impact of our works on road users and nearby residents.”