Cumnock, Caponacre Viaduct View from SW
SC 446172
Description Cumnock, Caponacre Viaduct View from SW
Date 26/8/1974
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 446172
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Caponacre/ Holmhead Viaduct, Cumnock, Ayrshire This viaduct was part of the Ayr & Cumnock Railway, a subsidiary of the Glasgow & South Western Railway, which gave the Lugar and Muirkirk ironworks and related pits a direct route to Ayr and its harbour. This view shows the 13-span masonry viaduct after the line had been abandoned and the viaduct had been adapted as a footbridge to give access to a council housing estate. The Ayr & Cumnock was so closely tied to the iron and mineral trade it was built to serve that its eastern end was in decline by the 1930s. By the 1950s it was being used for wagon storage. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H74/214/1
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