Archaeology Notes

Event ID 671911

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ81SE 24 8883 1416

See also NJ91SW 88.

For corresponding road bridge, see NJ81SE 81.

(Location cited as NJ 888 142). Dyuce, viaduct. Built c. 1854 for the Great North of Scotland Rly. A 3-span viaduct with brick arch rings and rubble spandrels. The arches are segmental.

J R Hume 1977.

This viaduct formerly carried the Dyce-Ellon-Fraserburgh branch ('the Buchan line') of the Great North of Scotland Rly. across the River Don, which here forms the boundary between the parishes of Dyce and New Machar. It closed to regular passenger traffic on 4 October 1965.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 13 May 1996.

G Daniels and L Dench 1980.

(Location cited as NJ 8885 1427). This viaduct measures 210ft (64m) in length, the maximum height of span being 12ft 6ins (3.8m). The original plan (by Alex. Gibb) dates from 1860 and a temporary support for the S abutment was 'needed' in 1957.

[Plan reference cited].

NMRS, MS/712/79.