Cruach Rock Shed
Location type
TunnelName and dates
Cruach Rock Shed (1896-)Opened on the West Highland Railway.
Description
This is deep cutting with a roof to prevent drifting snow from blocking the line.
Cruach Rock Shed was not built when the railway opened but shortly afterwards when it became obvious this location was regularly subject to blockage by snow. The line opened in 1894, the shed dates from around 1896.
The shed covers a cutting, fitted with concrete side walls, it is a cover 209 yards long built on a framework using old rails with a central portion which could be removed in the summer to allow smoke to escape the cutting. Today the central portion is not normally removed. A bridge crosses the railway at the southern end of the covering. At either end the line was further protected with snow fences.
Rock cut from here was used for the piers of the Rannoch Viaduct to the south.
Tags
Snow shed06/08/2021
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