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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 663034

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/663034

NH74SE 23 76413 44972

Nairn Viaduct [NAT]

OS 1:10,000 map, 1990.

Location formerly cited as NH 7646 4462 to NH 7637 4512.

For (adjacent) Culloden Moor Station, see NH74NE 41.00.

Opened to traffic 1.11.1898.

(Undated) information in NMRS.

(Location cited as NH 763 450). Culloden Moor Viaduct, opened 1898 by the Highland Rly, engineer Murdoch Paterson. A remarkable 28-span masonry viaduct, the longest such in Scotland, 1800ft (549m). It is built on a curve.

J R Hume 1977.

This double-track viaduct is the longest masonry railway viaduct in Scotland. It was designed by Murdoch Paterson for the Highland Rly across the River Findhorn; it opened on 1 November 1898 and remains in use.

M Smith 1994.

This viaduct carries the (current and diversion) Perth-Inverness main line across the River Nairn, which here forms the boundary between the portions of Croy and Dalcross parish in Inverness District (Inverness-shire) and Nairn District (Nairn), to the N and S respectively. It is approached by massive embankments on both N and S and forms a short break in the otherwise-unrelenting climb of the railway heading S from Inverness. It remains in regular use by passenger traffic.

The location assigned to this record defines the crossing-point of the structure over the River Nairn, somewhat to the N of its midpoint. The available map evidence (AIB GIS) indicates that it extends from NH c. 76361 45161 to NH c. 76472 44669.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 23 March 2006.

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