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Construction
Date 1808 - 1810
Event ID 606035
Category Building History
Type Construction
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/606035
Built as aqueduct on the Ardrossan Canal. Until widened and converted to twin track railway use in 1885, the aqueduct formed part of the Glasgow, Paisley & Johnstone Canal. The bridge is probably the longest span masonry aqueduct of the canal age on a British canal and one of the world’s earliest bridges carrying a public railway.
R Paxton and J Shipway 2007
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders' with kind permission of Thomas Telford Publishers.
