Transport and Telecomms Please choose one ADMINISTRATION AGRICULTURAL BUILDINGS COMMUNICATIONS CONFLICT CULTIVATION ENCLOSURES ENERGY EXTRACTION FLOODING GRAZINGS HOUSING KNOWLEDGE LEISURE MANUFACTURE PERCEPTION SETTLEMENTS TRADES Coastal River and canal Road Road bridges Railway Air and telecoms Leaderfoot viaduct, Roxburghshire The disused steel girder bridge which carried the Moray Firth coast railway line across the River Spey near its mouth. The line, from Buckie to Elgin, opened in 1886. A mania for investment in railways swept across Scotland during the second half of the 19th century, leading to levels of speculative investment which could never be recouped. New lines were still being built around 1900, under Light Railway Orders. These lines served such major metropolises as Gifford, Scrabster and Lauder. Only in the 1960s, some time after the 1948 railway nationalisation, did the radical cuts of Dr Richard Beeching trim the network to a sustainable size. Resource pack   1     2     3     4     5     6