did not mean the end of its use as many a Scottish Border Romeo slipped secretly across the Solway viaduct to keep a rendezvous with his fair English Juliet," said the book about the railway.

From 1869, a railway viaduct — then Europe’s longest — ran across the Solway Firth from Bowness to near Annan, for transporting iron ore to the Lanarkshire smelters. Damaged by ice-flows in 1881, it ...

Early studies into a Solway barrage were carried out in the 1960s and revived four years ago by a Cumbrian-based businessman. He suggested that the ideal location was the line of an old railway ...

did not mean the end of its use as many a Scottish Border Romeo slipped secretly across the Solway viaduct to keep a rendezvous with his fair English Juliet," said the book about the railway.