Banavie Railway Swing Bridge, Caledonian Canal is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 May 1985. 2 related planning applications.

Banavie Railway Swing Bridge, Caledonian Canal

WRENN ID
blind-banister-owl
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 May 1985
OS grid reference
NN 112 768
Coordinates
56.84427, -5.09708
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This is a railway swing bridge, built in 1901 by Simpson and Wilson. It is a steel bow truss bridge, crossing the Caledonian Canal to carry the West Highland railway track. The bridge is referenced in John Hume’s “The Industrial Archaeology of Scotland,” volume ii, page 208.

Local climate

Banavie Railway Swing Bridge, Caledonian Canal sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 67 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 48 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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