Mountain Moor and Loch: Illustrated by Pen and Pencil, on the Route of the West Highland Railway (Classic Reprint) [Idioma Inglés] - Softcover

Excerpt from Mountain Moor and Loch: Illustrated by Pen and Pencil, on the Route of the West Highland Railway

From Settle (23643 miles) onwards to Carlisle the scenery is magnificent, the railway threading for seventy-two miles a mountainous district presenting almost insurmountable engineering difficulties in the construction of the road in 1869. Settle itself is a pleasant little market town surrounded by romantic scenery, some of the most picturesque scenes in the West Riding being within easy reach. We proceed onwards through Yorkshire, Westmoreland and Cumberland, piercing the Pennine range, and winding in and out amongst its numerous spurs, through country so rugged that the construction of the seventy-two miles of railway involved an expenditure of over three millions, while seven years were spent in the task, the principal engineering features being nineteen viaducts and thirteen tunnels, with innumerable deep cuttings and high embankments.

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Excerpt from Mountain Moor and Loch: Illustrated by Pen and Pencil

The East Coast Route - The Midland Route; West Highlands - Ben a Chaistel at Auch - Caledonian Canal - The West Highland Railway, its hundred-mile run and view of Gareloch - Loch Scenery on the line from Helensburgh to Ardlui, Gortan, Rannoch, Band Ben Nevis - Strathullan - "Rob Roy Country - "Lady of the Lake" Country West Highland Railway, one of the great "show-route" of Loch Earn; To Edinburgh and Glasgow by the North British Railway - Edinburgh - Scott Monument - Tolbooth - Princes Street View from Calton Hill - Knox's House - St Anthony's Chapel - Holyrood - Edinburgh Castle - Memories of Mary Queen of Scots - Salisbury Crags and Arthur's Seat - Pentland, Braid, and Blackford Hills - The "Old Town" - The "New Town," its beautiful - Public Garden - "Lang Dike," now called "North Loch" - Niddrie

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.