Old travel Blog photograph of the Steel Truss bridge over the River Tay in Grandtully near Aberfeldy, Perthshire, Scotland. Until it was replaced, the old Steel Truss bridge at Grandtully used to carry the A827 across the River Tay. Fortunately, today it just carries a minor village road, and the new route of the A827 allows larger vehicles to bypass it. The old bridge suffers from a number of constraints. Firstly, it is at right angles to the river, while the road at either end runs parallel to the river. This means that traffic has to make two right-angled turns to use the bridge, one at either end. The second, and possibly more difficult problem is that the bridge is only really wide enough for single file traffic, but this issue pales into insignificance compared to the final problem - the bridge is subject to a 3 Tonne weight limit, with signs requesting that no more than one vehicle is on the bridge at any one time! It has now also been subjected to an advisory 10mph speed limit.
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