Scanned image of oblique aerial view of Neptune's Staircase, Banavie Swing Bridge and Banavie Railway Swing Bridge

Description Scanned image of oblique aerial view of Neptune's Staircase, Banavie Swing Bridge and Banavie Railway Swing Bridge

Collection RCAHMS Aerial Photography

Catalogue Number SC 361772

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of A 36760

Scope and Content Aerial view showing Neptune's Staircase and bridges, Caledonian Canal, Banavie, Highland The Caledonian Canal was built by the engineer Thomas Telford between 1803 and 1822. Passing through the Great Glen from Loch Eil to the Beauly Firth, Inverness-shire, and costing almost £1million to build, it was a great engineering achievement. Telford (1757-1834) was employed directly by the Treasury to design the canal. This aerial view shows eight of the series of 29 locks at Banavie, where ships had to be raised a vertical height of over 18m in a distance of 450m. Nicknamed Neptune's Staircase, these locks were built in a ladder formation. The canal is very narrow at this part, and there were often bottle-necks as only one ship could use it at a time. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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