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A patchwork bridge

One assumes that some of the stone used to build this minor road overbridge turned out to be of inferior quality, necessitating frequent repairs with blue engineering bricks. Numbered DJL 8 and still the structural maintenance responsibility of BRB (Residuary) Ltd, the bridge is adjacent to the former Macbiehill station, only the station agent's house of which survives. (Its roof and one end wall appear in one of Richard Webb's photographs for this grid square.) There was (and is) so little habitation hereabouts that for the first ten years of its life the station, on the North British Railway's Dolphinton branch, was called Coalyburn after an adjacent stream.