Heavy lifting on the Clyde as new bridge starts to take shape
• The Auchenshuggle bridge for the M74 will open next year. Picture: Robert Perry
The largest mobile crane in Europe is being used to erect massive steel beams for a road bridge over the River Clyde.
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Hide AdThe Auchenshuggle Bridge will carry both carriageways of the new M74 over the river when it opens next year.
Yesterday the minister, Stewart Stevenson, said:
"The M74 project, one of the largest construction projects on the ground in Scotland at present, is already providing vital jobs and investment for the hard-pressed construction industry."