Highlands and Islands projects awarded Scottish Land Fund support
A pub in Glenuig, a historic church in Tain and a shop in Glenelg are among projects that have been supported in the latest round of funding by the Scottish Land Fund (SLF).
Staff at Cairngorm Mountain have today (Wednesday 5 February) begun a series of maintenance activities on the electrical, mechanical and hydraulic systems that govern the movement of the two funicular carriages up and down the 1.8km viaduct.
Later this week, an engineer from Swiss funicular specialist Garaventa, who supplied and maintain the carriages and control system, will join the local team to carry out scheduled annual inspections of the mechanical systems.
The trains are expected to complete frequent trial runs on the mountainside over the next week or so.
Meanwhile, remediation works are continuing on the viaduct structure, led by Balfour Beatty on behalf of mountain estate owner Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE).
Although the remediation programme was substantially completed before Christmas, inspections identified a range of items requiring further work and teams from Balfour Beatty returned to the site early in January.
HIE says it continues to aim for the funicular to be safely back in service as soon as possible within the current winter season and will provide a firm date for relaunch once this can be confirmed.
Cairngorm Mountain is open every day and the latest weather and operational information is on its website at www.cairngormmountain.co.uk
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