View from NW showing ten arches
SC 766497
Description View from NW showing ten arches
Date 14/8/1970
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 766497
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Kinclaer Railway Viaduct, Pinmore, South Ayrshire This shows the viaduct from the north-west. It is on a curve, and is built of whinstone rubble, with sandstone arch rings. The piers are unusually slender, and some have been reinforced with old rails. The road in the foreground is the A714. At the time this railway was built, Portpatrick was the port for the short crossing of the Irish Sea. It was subsequently supplanted by Stranraer, and this line has been retained to serve the ferry pier as well as the town, which is the largest in Wigtownshire. This viaduct is on the Girvan & Portpatrick Railway, opened in 1877. The line ran though difficult country, and was single-track, with passing places. This viaduct crosses the valley of a small burn, and also the A714 Girvan to Newton Stewart road, twice. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/70/49/33
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