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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 665149
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/665149
NJ13NE 24 16877 36799
Location formerly entered as as NJ 16873 36793.
For adjacent Ballindalloch Station (NJ 1674 3660), see NJ13NE 23.
[Location incorrectly cited as NJ 169 396].). Bridge, Ballindalloch, built 1863 for The Strathspey Railway by engineer G McFarlane, Dundee. An iron-truss span with a short plate-girder access span at each end..
J R Hume 1977.
This structure was originally known as Ballindalloch Viaduct but is a lattice-girder bridge. The line closed to regular passenger traffic on 18 October 1965 and totally on 4 November 1968. The bridge still stands.
M Smith 1994.
This railway bridge (not a viaduct) formerly carried the Craigellachie - Boat of Garten ('Spey Valley') line of the Great North of Scotland Rly over the River Spey, to the NE of Ballindalloch Station (NJ13NE 23). The river here forms the boundary between the parishes of Inveravon (Banff) and Knockando (Moray), to the N and S respectively.
This bridge is depicted, but not noted, on the current OS (GIS) AIB. The location assigned to this record defines the midpoint of the structure. The available map evidence indicates that it extends from NJ c. 16900 36841 to NJ c. 16855 36756.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 7 April 2006.
