Construction

Date 1796

Event ID 882099

Category Building History

Type Construction

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A traditional knee-braced timber-trestle construction 700 ft long with 13 fixed and one lifting span and considered at the time, because of its magnitude and difficulty of construction, ‘the most remarkable of the kind in the kingdom’. Demolished 1828.

Information from R Paxton and J Shipway 2007b. Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands' with kind permission of Thomas Telford Publishers.