Archaeology Notes

Event ID 706541

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS88SE 42 8586 8181 to 8592 8201

(Location cited as NS 859 820). Larbert viaduct, opened 1848 by the Scottish Central Rly. A 23-span viaduct with dressed-stone arch rings and coursed-rubble spandrels and piers. The arches are strengthened by old rails.

J R Hume 1976.

This viaduct carries the Glasgow-Perth (main) line of the (former) Caledonian Rly. over the valley of the River Carron between Carmuirs Junction and Larbert at a point where the river forms the boundary between the parishes of Falkirk and Larbert.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 13 November 1997.