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Robert McAlpine

Photograph at the Robert McAlpine black plaque

Loch-Nan-Uamh Viaduct. The legend of builder Robert McAlpine's horse and cart falling down inside a pier of Glenfinnan Viaduct in c1899 was corrected in 2001 when radar imaging proved that the event occurred here in the centre pier (see Rcahms Broadsheet 10)

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Source: Open Plaques. Geographic data via OpenStreetMap.

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