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Latitude: 56.0209 / 56°1'15"N
Longitude: -3.7977 / 3°47'51"W
OS Eastings: 288042
OS Northings: 682342
OS Grid: NS880823
Mapcode National: GBR 1J.SQSN
Mapcode Global: WH5QS.MXSP
Plus Code: 9C8R26C2+8W
Entry Name: Carron Railway Bridge, Carron River, Bainsford
Listing Name: Former Railway Bridge Across River Carron Carron Iron Works
Listing Date: 5 August 1992
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 372476
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB31250
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Bainsford, Carron River, Carron Railway Bridge
ID on this website: 200372476
Location: Falkirk
County: Falkirk
Town: Falkirk
Electoral Ward: Falkirk North
Traditional County: Stirlingshire
Tagged with: Railway bridge
Circa 1860, for Carron Company. 2-span segmental arched masonry bridge, with channelled bullnosed ashlar voussoirs with dressed margins, and snecked rubble spandrels and wing walls spandrels strengthened with old rails, arranged radially. Road span to N removed.
Built for internal railway to new canal basin at Bainsford, Falkirk. One of few substantial survivors from Carron Iron Works, Scotland's first major iron-smelting works. Also in Larbert Parish (item 16).
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