Publication Account

Date 1995

Event ID 1018982

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1018982

Close by Cumnock are two impressive railway viaducts: Bank Viaduct and Glaisnock Viaduct. The railway to Cumnock was opened in 1850 by the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway Company, after the construction of this bridge over the Lugar Water. Twenty-two years later the Glasgow and South Western Railway Company built a second railway line through Cumnock, called the Ayr and Cumnock branch line, and opened the Glaisnock Viaduct figure 21. From the Middle Ages, Cumnock had been strategically placed on crossing routes, whether for foot passengers or, later, coach traffic; this function was maintained by the opening of these lines, viaducts and Cumnock's two railway stations.

Information from ‘Historic Cumnock: The Archaeological Implications of Development’ (1995).