Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders
Date 2007
Event ID 606453
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/606453
Viaduct designed by Joseph Mitchell and built by Fairbairn Engineering. Similar to viaduct at Dalguise. At Blair Atholl the railway is carried 40 ft above the Tilt on a single wrought-iron lattice girder span of 150 ft of similar
construction to Dalguise Viaduct. The masonry abutments were built on timber rafts 3 ft below the bed of the river secured to timber piles. The contractor was Alexander Wilson.
Because of its vicinity to Blair Castle the bridge abutments were ‘made somewhat more ornate than was otherwise necessary’.
This use of iron was probably an economy measure on the Aberfeldy Branch [of the Inverness and Perth Junction Railway line of the Highland Railway] which operated, none too successfully in commercial terms, for a century, being closed in1965.
R Paxton and J Shipway
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders' with kind permission of Thomas Telford Publishers.
