Ballochmyle Viaduct View as train crosses
SC 588292
Description Ballochmyle Viaduct View as train crosses
Date 1966
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 588292
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Ballochmyle Viaduct, Mauchline, East Ayrshire Ballochmyle Viaduct was built 1846-8 as part of the Cumnock Branch of the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock & Ayr Railway, and designed by John Miller. It is built of red sandstone which was quarried beside the structure. This shows the viaduct from the east, with a freight train crossing it. The central span is 55.2m long, and it is flanked by groups of three smaller arches. The main span is believed to be the longest masonry arch ever built to carry a railway. It was possible to build an arch of this size because of the solid sandstone cliffs on both sides of the gorge of the River Ayr. Although it was nominally on a branch line, it was designed as part of a main line from Glasgow to Carlisle via Dumfries. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H66/123/1D
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