Joe gets the lowdown on Craigavon Bridge and new Transport Hub

Translink's John Glass and Joe Mahon with the Craigavon Bridge in the background.

Joe’s popular series, Ulster Giants, will also feature other landmarks in North West tin the upcoming episode when it airs on UTV on Monday December 14.

Ulster Giants celebrates civil engineering heritage across the north, and in this episode Joe Mahon relates the story of the origins of the Ordnance Survey, when an eight-mile baseline was measured across the shore lands of Lough Foyle to begin the triangulation for the first large scale mapping of Ireland in the 1820s

. This was the first exercise of its kind to be carried out anywhere in the world.

Civil engineer Lisa McFadden and Joe Mahon at the newly refurbished Nw Transport Hub.

According to the programme, “the accuracy achieved by Thomas Colby and his team of surveyors, using ingeniously contrived, but essentially crude instruments by today’s standards, is still a truly remarkable feat.”

Later in the episode, Joe Mahon travels back from the cityside over to the Waterside Railway Station in Derry for a quick history lesson on the city’s travel infrastructure.

he will also discover how the listed Victorian building has been carefully refurbished and incorporated into the North West’s brand new £27m Transport Hub.

Last month, Infrastructure Minister Nichola Mallon welcomed the completion of works at the Hub in Derry during a visit to the city.

Ulster Giants is produced by Westway Film Productions, and viewers can watch this, the penultimate episode honing in on the north west next Monday, December 14 at 8pm on UTV and on catch up on www.itv.com/utvprogrammes.