View from ESE looking along trough of aqueduct.
SC 796265
Description View from ESE looking along trough of aqueduct.
Date 4/1981
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 796265
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Avon Aqueduct, Union Canal, West Lothian, from west-north-west This view from the west-north-west, taken in April 1981, shows the newly-repaired Avon Aqueduct, looking along the channel, which consists of a cast-iron trough carried on longitudinal walls within a 12-span masonry-arched supporting structure. This approach was recommended by Thomas Telford. The Union Canal was little used after the opening of the competing Edinburgh & Glasgow Railway in 1842. Commercial traffic ceased in the 1930s, but navigation was not officially ended until 1965, after which blockages occurred. The canal was reopened in 2001 as part of the Millennium Link project. In 1818-22 the Edinburgh & Glasgow Union Canal was built to designs by Hugh Baird, the Forth & Clyde Canal's engineer, to link the two cities via the Forth & Clyde Canal. Unlike the latter, the Union was a barge canal, with fixed bridges. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference CT180
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