Archaeology Notes

Event ID 660866

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NH59NE 30 57886 95265

Location formerly cited as NH 5785 9524 to NH 5794 9530, and as NH 57893 95274.

Oykel Viaduct [NAT]

OS 1:10,000 map, 1992.

(Location cited as NH 579 953). Shin Viaduct, built 1867 for the Sutherland Rly. by engineers Joseph Mitchell and Murdoch Paterson. It is an iron-truss bridge of length 230 ft (70.1m) with two tall semicircular-arched approach spans at the S end and three at the N.

J R Hume 1977.

This viaduct was built to carry the Dingwall-Wick extension of the Inverness and Ross-shire Rly across the Kyle of Sutherland; it opened to traffic on 13 April 1868, was strengthened by the addition of further ironwork in 1912-13, and remains in use. It comprises a 280 ft (85.3m) lattice girder main span and five stone approach arches, each of 30 ft (9.1m) span.

M Smith 1994.

This viaduct carries the Inverness - Wick and Thurso ('Far North') line of the former Highland Rly across the Kyle of Sutherland, which here forms the boundary between the parishes of Creich and Kincardine (both within the former county of Sutherland). It remains in regular use by passenger traffic.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 29 January 2001.

The location assigned to this record defines the midpoint of the structure. The available map evidence indicates that it extends from NH c. 57857 95242 to NH c. 57914 95287.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 21 April 2006.