{"id":41873,"date":"2025-01-14T16:41:18","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T16:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=41873"},"modified":"2025-01-14T16:41:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T16:41:19","slug":"ihbc-features-heritage-from-the-doorstep-cairngorm-railway-is-inherently-flawed-warns-engineer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=41873","title":{"rendered":"IHBC features \u2018Heritage from the doorstep\u2019: Cairngorm railway is \u2018inherently flawed\u2019, warns engineer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/The_Cairngorm_Funicular_Railway_-_geograph.org_.uk_-_3151604_Walter_Baxter_commons_wiki.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/The_Cairngorm_Funicular_Railway_-_geograph.org_.uk_-_3151604_Walter_Baxter_commons_wiki.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41874\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em><sub>image for illustration: <a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/a\/a5\/The_Cairngorm_Funicular_Railway_-geograph.org.uk-_3151604.jpg\">The Cairngorm Funicular Railway<\/a> by\u00a0Walter Baxter, <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0\">CC BY-SA 2.0 <\/a>, via Wikimedia Commons<\/sub><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A top Scottish engineer is warning repairs on the Cairngorm mountain railway will not last, reports <em>The Press and Journal<\/em>, as the mountain railway should never have relied on concrete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Press and Journal<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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. \u2018This is like putting lipstick on a pig,\u2019 he said\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr Carson\u2019s warnings leave major question marks\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pressandjournal.co.uk\/fp\/politics\/6620719\/cairngorm-funicular-flawed-engineer\/\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>image for illustration: The Cairngorm Funicular Railway by\u00a0Walter 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=41873\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,24,29,83,76],"class_list":["post-41873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog","tag-conservation","tag-engineering","tag-heritage","tag-scotland","tag-transport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41875,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41873\/revisions\/41875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}