Should you be travelling by train north to Inverness, or south from Inverness for that matter, it may suprise you to know that shortly after leaving t
Should you be travelling by train north to Inverness, or south from Inverness for that matter, it may suprise you to know that shortly after leaving the Highland Capital you cross a burn on this, the Moy Viaduct. This engineering marvel was completed in 1897 and is the only remaining timber trestle bridge in operation on a mainline in Scotland (some sources state it is the last remaining one on a mainline in Britain). It is so special that it is under the care of Historic Environment Scotland who have it registered as A Listed status! The bridge was built for the Highland Railway Company by the engineer Murdoch Patterson to cross the Allt na Slanaich. In 2002 it was subject to some extensive work in which a concrete brace was added to take the load of the railway after rot was discovered in the timber during a routine inspection. Although the viaduct was designed wide enough to take 2 tracks only one was ever laid across the bridge.
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