Recording Your Heritage Online
Event ID 564508
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Recording Your Heritage Online
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/564508
Swing Bridge, engineers Simpson & Wilson, opened 1901 Hand operated, it carries the railway to Mallaig over the canal on a massive steel bowed truss. The wooden signal box nearby (which now controls the whole West Highland Line) is a 1980s replica of the original (station demolished).
Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
