End of the line

We visited Bowness-on-Solway because it's the end point of Hadrian's Wall. While we were there, though. we learned a piece of more recent history.

This is all that remains of the Solway Viaduct, an amazing piece of Victorian engineering that connected railways on the English and Scottish sides of the Firth. Opened in 1869, in January 1881, during an exceptionally cold winter, it was severely damaged by ice floes. It was repaired in 1882-84, and operated until it was closed in 1921.