IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Cairngorm railway is ‘inherently flawed’, warns engineer

image for illustration: The Cairngorm Funicular Railway by Walter Baxter, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

A top Scottish engineer is warning repairs on the Cairngorm mountain railway will not last, reports The Press and Journal, as the mountain railway should never have relied on concrete.

The Press and Journal writes:

A top Scottish engineer is warning repairs on the Cairngorm mountain railway will not last. John Carson, 76, who was the boss of the company that built the Skye Bridge, believes it was a poor decision to build the funicular using precast concrete beams instead of steel. ‘This is like putting lipstick on a pig,’ he said…

Mr Carson’s warnings leave major question marks…

Read more….

This entry was posted in IHBC NewsBlog and tagged , , , , . Bookmark the permalink.