Display at West Cumberland Railway Museum to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the opening of the Solway Firth viaduct
THE 150th anniversary of the opening of a feat of British railway engineering that linked England and Scotland, but ended its days as a clandestine route for Scottish drinkers who wanted to beat their country’s Sunday drinking ban, is to be celebrated by West Cumberland Railway Museum.
It was the Solway viaduct, which was opened by the Solway Junction Railway exactly 150 years ago, on September 13, 1869. Built at a cost of £100,000 – about £11 million today – the trestle-like structure, which crossed the Solway Firth, was just over a mile
