Description: Through the second arch on the right can be seen the original wooden bridge carrying Twinhoe Lane over the canal. This bridge only lasted for a few years after the opening of the Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway in 1874. In 1880 the Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway Committee received a request to improve the wooden bridge on the road across the canal. The original bridge restricted passage of all but the lightest of traffic and the railway Company was informed that an iron replacement would cost £500. The local Highway Board refused to take over the maintenance of either bridge or roadway unless the former was rebuilt! This photograph also pre-dates the building of the railway signal box and possibly the station buildings.
A panoramic photograph by J. & J. Dutton, photographers, Bath. One of a series of fascinating early panoramic views of Bath from the 1860s.