The Electric Brae Ayrshire
The Electric Brae is a stretch of road in Ayrshire Scotland where cars appear to be drawn uphill by some mysterious attraction The Lowland Scots word brae means a hill slope or brow with which it is cognate and the electric name was given when electricity was a new technology associated with strange forces There is more than one stretch of road known as Electric Brae but the most famous is on the A719 south of Dunure not far from Ayr and heading east towards Maybole Though the road appears to be running uphill a suitably free running vehicle will slowly move off from a standstill Metal road signs which used to mark the place have tended to be taken by visitors and have been replaced by a stone cairn which is inscribed with an explanation conversions to metric not in the original
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Location: Ayrshire Coast
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