Tour Scotland short travel video clip of steam trains double heading over Lochy Bridge on the West Highland railway line on ancestry, genealogy, history visit to the West Highlands. In railroad terminology, double heading indicates the use of two locomotives at the front. This is a single track girder railway viaduct which was built to carry the Mallaig extension of the West Highland Railway, a subsidiary of the North British Railway, across the River Lochy supported on cylindrical cast iron piers which were finished in masonry above the high water mark. This bridge crosses the River Lochy at Castle Pool, where it forms the boundary between the parishes of Kilmallie and Kilmonivaig. The River Lochy flows southwest along the Great Glen from Loch Lochy to Loch Linnhe at Fort William in the West Highlands of Scotland. Its two major tributaries are the short River Arkaig which drains Loch Arkaig into Loch Lochy and the River Spean which enters on its left bank at Gairlochy. The A830 road crosses the Lochy near its junction with the A82 road by means of the Victoria or Lochy Bridge just northeast of Fort William and the river is bridged again east of Gairlochy by the B8004 road. The only other crossing of the Lochy is a combined rail and foot bridge 1,600 feet downstream from Victoria Bridge. This span takes the West Highland Line between Fort William and Mallaig and carries the Great Glen Way national trail. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. Find things to see and do in Scotland where you are always welcome.
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