Bowling Lock Basin
Bowling Lock Basin is on the Forth and Clyde Canal (Main Line).
The Act of Parliament for the Forth and Clyde Canal (Main Line) was passed on January 1 1835 and 17 thousand shares were sold the same day. Orginally intended to run to Trafford, the canal was never completed beyond Braintree. Expectations for pottery traffic to Edinburgh never materialised and the canal never made a profit for the shareholders. Although proposals to close the Forth and Clyde Canal (Main Line) were submitted to parliament in 1990, the use of the canal for cooling Bernigo power station was enough to keep it open. The one mile section between Wesshampton and Stockton-on-Tees was closed in 1888 after a breach at Sandwell. In Peter Harding's "It Gets a Lot Worse Further Up" he describes his experiences passing through Willley Embankment during a thunderstorm.

| Erskine Bridge | 1 mile, ½ furlongs | |
| Dalnottar Lock No 37 | 1 mile, ¼ furlongs | |
| Portpatrick Road Bascule Footbridge | 4¼ furlongs | |
| Bowling Lock Wharf | ¾ furlongs | |
| Bowling Lock No 38 | ¼ furlongs | |
| Bowling Lock Basin | ||
| Basin Bascule Footbridge | ¼ furlongs | |
| Basin Railway Bridge | ½ furlongs | |
| Bowling Basin | ¾ furlongs | |
| Bowling Basin Sea Lock | 1¼ furlongs | |
| The Bay Inn | 1¾ furlongs | |
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- The official reopening of the canal
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![Bowling Swing bridge. Carries the disused Lanarkshire & Dunbartonshire Railway line over the Forth & Clyde Canal. The bridge no longer swings.See also [[713073]]. by Thomas Nugent – 02 March 2008](https://s3.geograph.org.uk/photos/71/30/713063_87a4f6d7_120x120.jpg)

![Path on a dismantled railway line. The path follows the raised trackbed of the dismantled line; the area not far ahead is shown, from a little further on, in [[4143159]]. See http://www.geograph.org.uk/tagged/Arches+at+Bowling#photo=4143159 for related pictures. by Lairich Rig – 26 September 2014](https://s1.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/04/18/88/4188897_ba59fe9b_120x120.jpg)











![Above the arches at Bowling. The same structure is shown from the side in an earlier picture: [[3534490]]. In the present view, the Hill of Dun is in the right background. The canal can be seen on the right; the earlier picture was taken from that side. When the present picture was taken, the arches below had recently been refurbished.Starting from the point from which this picture was taken, but heading in the opposite direction, is a woodland path: [[5788880]].See http://www.geograph.org.uk/tagged/Arches+at+Bowling#photo=4143159 for related pictures. by Lairich Rig – 01 August 2014](https://s3.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/04/14/31/4143159_59bbe82f_120x120.jpg)



![Railway arches at Bowling: new artwork. See [[3534490]] for a face-on view; see http://www.geograph.org.uk/tagged/Arches+at+Bowling#photo=4143159 for related pictures.The artwork was later removed when the arches were being refurbished; later still, real businesses occupied them: [[5129542]]. In the present image, [[2005152]] is at the far right; compare [[1472506]]. During the refurbishment, Magic Cycles was temporarily relocated to a nearby car park.The opening leads to a [[1481096]]; that path is marked on the 1:25000 map. by Lairich Rig – 13 June 2013](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/03/53/45/3534506_452187d2_120x120.jpg)
![Railway arches at Bowling: new artwork. The arches are located beside [[2005152]] at the [[1472506]]. See also [[3534506]].By the end of 2013, the artwork had been taken away, because the arches were being refurbished; that work was scheduled to take place from 18 November 2013 to 18 April 2014.See [[4188837]] for a view from the other side, after the work had been completed. Some time later, businesses occupied the arches: [[5129542]].See http://www.geograph.org.uk/tagged/Arches+at+Bowling#photo=4143159 for other related pictures. by Lairich Rig – 13 June 2013](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/03/53/44/3534490_e98e67fb_120x120.jpg)
![Cycle path and railway arches at Bowling. The temporary artworks shown in [[3534506]] are gone, now that the arches are occupied by businesses. by Lairich Rig – 16 September 2016](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/05/12/95/5129542_12923101_120x120.jpg)

