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Connel Bridge at Sunset
This lovely steel cantilever bridge was completed on 9 May 1903 to convey the railway from Connel across The Falls of Lora at the mouth of Loch Etive.
Loch Etive is a small fiord in Argyllshire on the West Coast of Scotland.
The Connel Bridge’s span is 500 feet ( 152.4 meters ) and its height above the water some 50 feet ( 15.24 meters ), though this depends radically upon tidal and meteorological conditions. Each approach is of three masonry arches.
The railway connected the Ballachulish slate quarries to the UK standard gage network. Until 1914 road vehicles were carried across the bridge on flat wagons, and since 1966 the bridge has been a road-only crossing.
The bridge was built by Sir William Arrol and Company of the Dalmarnock Iron Works that was East of Glasgow. It is possible that Arrol’s was responsible for the World’s most beautiful, as well as long-lasting and famous, steel structures.
Arrol’s built the reconstructed Tay Bridge ( 1887 ) after the first one blew down in a storm in 1879; the Forth Rail Bridge of 1890; London’s Tower Bridge; the Nile Bridge in Egypt and Australia’s Hawkesbury Bridge.
The firm also built the Bankside Power Station at Southwark in London, which is now the World-famous Tate Modern art gallery; and also the Arrol Gantry at Belfast, that Harland and Wolff commissioned so that they could build the ill-fated White Star liners Titanic, Britannic and Olympic, all of which sank in notorious and controversial circumstances.
Connel Bridge at Sunset
This lovely steel cantilever bridge was completed on 9 May 1903 to convey the railway from Connel across The Falls of Lora at the mouth of Loch Etive.
Loch Etive is a small fiord in Argyllshire on the West Coast of Scotland.
The Connel Bridge’s span is 500 feet ( 152.4 meters ) and its height above the water some 50 feet ( 15.24 meters ), though this depends radically upon tidal and meteorological conditions. Each approach is of three masonry arches.
The railway connected the Ballachulish slate quarries to the UK standard gage network. Until 1914 road vehicles were carried across the bridge on flat wagons, and since 1966 the bridge has been a road-only crossing.
The bridge was built by Sir William Arrol and Company of the Dalmarnock Iron Works that was East of Glasgow. It is possible that Arrol’s was responsible for the World’s most beautiful, as well as long-lasting and famous, steel structures.
Arrol’s built the reconstructed Tay Bridge ( 1887 ) after the first one blew down in a storm in 1879; the Forth Rail Bridge of 1890; London’s Tower Bridge; the Nile Bridge in Egypt and Australia’s Hawkesbury Bridge.
The firm also built the Bankside Power Station at Southwark in London, which is now the World-famous Tate Modern art gallery; and also the Arrol Gantry at Belfast, that Harland and Wolff commissioned so that they could build the ill-fated White Star liners Titanic, Britannic and Olympic, all of which sank in notorious and controversial circumstances.