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Thomas Telford bronze plaque

Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland, United Kingdom

Thomas Telford bronze plaque

Paisley Canal Line This plaque marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Telford, the great civil engineer, who designed the Glasgow, Paisley & Ardrossan Canal opened to here in 1811 and converted to a railway in 1883. Blackhall Bridge (1809) over the white cart, with the longest aqueduct s

pan of the canal age and now carrying the railway, is 3/4 mile east of this station.

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