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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 702981

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/702981

NS52SE 15 57395 20624

Location also formerly cited as NS 5732 2068 to NS 5749 2054.

Not to be confused with Rosebank, Lugar Viaduct (NS 59917 21445), for which see NS52SE 12.

Viaduct [NAT] (at NS 5742 2061)

OS (GIS) AIB, June 2006.

(Location cited as NS 574 205). Bank Viaduct, opened 1850 by the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Rly. A very fine tall 13-span masonry viaduct, with semicircular arches.

J R Hume 1976.

This viaduct carries the Kilmarnock-Dumfries portion of the Glasgow-Carlisle ('Nith Valley') main line of the former Glasgow and South Western Rly over the Lugar Water between Cumnock (NS52SE 28) and Lugar (NS52SE 30), to the SW and NE respectively. It remains in regular use by passenger traffic.

The river here forms the boundary between the parishes of Auchinleck (to the NW) and Old Cumnock (to the SE).

The location assigned to this record defines the midpoint of the river-crossing. The available map evidence indicates that the viaduct extends from NS C. 57323 20682 to NS c. 57483 20550. It is depicted, but not noted, on the 1986 edition of the OS 1:10,000 map.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 1 June 2006.

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