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Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands
Date 2007
Event ID 617593
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/617593
Awe or Orchy Viaduct (Railway). An impressive double-triangular iron lattice truss viaduct built in 1878–79 on the Callander & Oban Railway crossing the Orchy at the head of Loch Awe 2 miles west of Dalmally. It is the longest viaduct on the line and has seven spans of 63 ft supported on short masonry piers and abutments. The line opened in June 1880.
This final part of the railway to Oban was resurveyed by John Strain of Glasgow who became the engineer in place of Blyth & Cunningham. The contractor for this viaduct was W. & T. Adams.
R Paxton and Jim Shipway 2007b
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands' with kind permission from Thomas Telford Publishers.
