Red Burn tunnel
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Red Burn tunnel
Image: © Robert Murray Taken: 11 May 2010
Not a tunnel in the true sense of the meaning but a bridge like structure built and then covered by the earth embankment above. A much favoured method of Victorian railway builders. The banking and tunnel would appear to have been built after the nearby Caledonian Railway line to Falkirk was built in c.1848 to carry the existing road on a level with the new bridge built over the railway 100m S.E.
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Image Location
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55.964205
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-3.958876