Edinchip Accommodation Bridge
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Edinchip Accommodation Bridge (1870-1965)Opened on the Callander and Oban Railway.
Description
This 'B' listed cast iron accommodation footbridge with a wooden deck crosses the trackbed of the former Callander and Oban Railway just north of Edinchip Viaduct [C and O] and west of Edinchip House.
With Sir Malcolm Murray-MacGregor, who owned the Edinchip estate the railway crossed, the railway had a formidable landowner to please. The planned route would pass close to the rear of his house. Murray-MacGregor did not want the railway to cross his land at all, preferring it to pass through a tunnel through his land.
Murray-MacGregor was a Rear Admiral who saw action in the Crimean War.
In an effort to placate Murray-MacGregor this unusually fine accommodation bridge was built over the line.
The bridge carries a path which joins an estate road running north west from Edinchip House into Glen Kendrum above the Kendrum Burn.
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Footbridge
| Nearby stations Lochearnhead [2nd] Balquhidder [1st] Balquhidder [2nd] Kingshouse Platform Strathyre Glenoglehead Crossing Killin Junction Craig-na-Cailleach Platform Killin [2nd] Luib Loch Tay St Fillans Callander (Dreadnought) Callander Ticket Platform Callander [1st] | Edinchip Viaduct [LSFCR] Edinchip Viaduct [C and O] Balquhidder Shed Lochearnhead Viaduct Glen Ogle Rockfall Glen Ogle Viaduct Glenbeich Viaduct Ardveich Wood Viaduct Strathyre Viaduct Ardchyle Viaduct Tourist/other Edinchip House Balquhidder Old Church Loch Earn Ben Vorlich Stuc a'Chroin |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
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