Poole Harbour Bascule Bridge, Dorset

Date filmed: 23/06/2021
Video filmed at 14:42

Location: A350, Poole

Activation starts at 0:20
Bridge begins to lift at 2:28
Bridge fully raised at 4:35
Bridge begins to lower at 10:10
Gates and barriers re-open at 12:34

One of two lifting bridges located within Poole, this lifting bridge located just away from the southern end of the High Street in between Poole's Quay and Poole's Port. In the mid-late 2010s, the bridge's approaches, walkways across it and protective equipment were fully-renewed, and now this lifting bridge has pedestrian gates along side the barriers and gates for the main road when previously only a pair of barriers covered both the footway and the road on each side. Despite all this however, the bridge structure itself has remained un-changed, and still looks very much the same as it did previously, albeit with wider footways for pedestrians.

This bridge is quite a lot different from the Twin-Sails Bridge nearby, and the two sections of the bridge take around two minutes to both fully raise and lower. The barriers and wigwags (road traffic lights) alerting vehicles of the bridge raising appear rather bespoke, and the warning lights themselves are located on thin back-boards. For each side, there are also two sets of alarms, as there is a rather odd-sounding alarm which sounds when the road barriers both lower and raise, and another alarm which works the same way for the operation of the pedestrian gates. As well as the barriers and pedestrian gates, the bridge is additionally protected each side by another pair of gates for the road.

The bridge is seen fully cycling in this video to allow boats and vessels both into and out of Upton Lake. The nearby Twin Sails Bridge (seen in the background at parts of the video) raised twice in half an hour to allow the Upton Lake-bound vessels to proceed further.

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