Tour Scotland short 4K travel video clip, with Scottish fiddle music, of a train journey to cross Creag an Arnain Viaduct on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to the Highlands, Britain, United Kingdom. It is a railway viaduct that carries the West Highland Railway Line. It opened to traffic in 1894 as part of the West Highland Line between Glasgow and Fort William. It may have been designed by James Miller who was the son of a farmer, and was born in Auchtergaven, Perthshire, in 1860. He spent most of his childhood in Little Cairnie, Forteviot, and was educated at Perth Academy. In 1877, he was articled to the Perth architect Andrew Heiton, and on completion of his apprenticeship, he worked in Edinburgh at the office of Hippolyte Blanc before joining the engineering department of the Caledonian Railway, initially in Perth. He is know for his commercial architecture in Glasgow and for his Scottish railway stations. Notable among these are the American-influenced Union Bank building at 110 to 120 St Vincent Street; his 1901 to 1905 extensions to Glasgow Central railway station; and Wemyss Bay railway station on the Firth of Clyde. His lengthy career resulted in a wide range of building types, and, with the assistance of skilled draughtsmen such as Richard M Gunn, he adapted his designs to changing tastes and new architectural materials and technologies. Miller died on 28 November 1947 at Randolphfield, Stirling, which had been his home since 1911. The viaduct has eight arches of 11 metres (36 ft) span, for a total length of 104 metres (341 ft). It has a slight curve, and crosses two unnamed small rivers on the western shore of Loch Lomond. t is the only conventional masonry viaduct on the West Highland line, many others being made of concrete. It was built of stone arches instead of lattice girders, as many railway bridges were at the time, to avoid contemporary criticism. 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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