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This 'B' listed cast iron accommodation footbridge with a wooden deck crosses the trackbed of the former Callander and Oban Railway just north of Edinchip Viaduct [C and O] and west of Edinchip House.

With Sir Malcolm Murray-MacGregor, who owned the Edinchip estate the railway crossed, the railway had a formidable landowner to please. The planned route would pass close to the rear of his house. Murray-MacGregor did not want the railway to cross his land at all, preferring it to pass through a tunnel through his land (it would have cost £9,000). In addition to the cost of purchasing land the C&O had to pay a further £2,500 for loss of revenue for grazing.

Murray-MacGregor was a Rear Admiral who saw action in the Crimean War.

In an effort to placate Murray-MacGregor this unusually fine accommodation bridge was built over the line.

The bridge carries a path which joins an estate road running north west from Edinchip House into Glen Kendrum above the Kendrum Burn.

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