BBC Scotland Connel bridge sunset...
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11th September 2015 photos.
Campbell Brodie-
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Adam Mint-
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Connel bridge...
Recall as a very young kid walking over it, it still had the railway lines in it then, had relatives that stayed in Dunbeg and was up there on holiday, then a few years back crossed it again, in a car this time, tide was going out and the flow from the loch under the bridge was wild, now there's a place to put turbines I thought...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connel_Bridge
Recall as a very young kid walking over it, it still had the railway lines in it then, had relatives that stayed in Dunbeg and was up there on holiday, then a few years back crossed it again, in a car this time, tide was going out and the flow from the loch under the bridge was wild, now there's a place to put turbines I thought...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connel_Bridge
Campbell Brodie-
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It used to be for trains only, then they allowed a single lane of traffic as well on a priority system, then when the Beeching cuts hit they made it a vehicle bridge but it still is only wide enough for single file traffic and is controlled by traffic lights at either end.
Adam Mint-
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So you read the link...
Campbell Brodie-
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I didn't!Adam Mint wrote:So you read the link...
I've always known the history of it, though I couldn't put dates to events!
Adam Mint-
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It's a lot older than I thought...