Recording Your Heritage Online
Event ID 567293
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Recording Your Heritage Online
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/567293
Glenfinnan Less than a century after the Commissioners' first Parliamentary road had opened up this district for travel overland as far as Arisaig (1804-12 ), steam trains were clattering their way along the spectacular 'iron road to the Isles' -the Fort William to Mallaig extension of the West Highland Railway, engineered by Simpson & Wilson of Glasgow, with contractors Robert McAlpine & Sons.
Glenfinnan Viaduct, 1897-1901 The tour de force of this outstanding feat of concrete engineering was the first and longest mass concrete viaduct in Britain. A rhythm of 21 arches supports a crescent 1,24 8 ft long, carrying the railway line 100 ft above the river.
Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
