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Laigh Milton Mill Viaduct View from NNE

SC 437947

Description Laigh Milton Mill Viaduct View from NNE

Date 4/1974

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 437947

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Laigh Milton Viaduct, near Gatehead, Ayrshire This viaduct, designed by William Jessop, was the major engineering work on the Kilmarnock & Troon Railway, a plateway which was Scotland's first public Railway. It was abandoned in 1847 when the line was rebuilt as a conventional railway. This view shows the four segmental arches of the viaduct, and the rounded cutwaters supporting semicircular buttresses. The stonework was in a very poor state of repair, and trees were growing out of the trackbed. This is believed to be the oldest railway viaduct in the world. It was consolidated as a monument in the 1990s, and is now open to visitors. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H74/89/14

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/437947

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap

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