Archaeology Notes

Event ID 725764

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NX65SE 69 69269 53377

For corresponding road bridge (adjacent to W), see NX65SE 63.

Tongland Railway Viaduct is depicted on Ordnance Survey GIS Epoch 4 map dating from 1922 to 1969. The NMRS List C Survey photograph (KB/1963) shows only the supporting piers standing. The railway viaduct spanned the River Dee which forms the boundary between the parishes of Kirkcudbright (to the S) and Tongland (to the N).

Information from RCAHMS (LKFJ), April 2002.

This viaduct formerly carried the Kirkcudbright branch (from Castle Douglas) of the former Glasgow and South Western Rly over the River Dee at the head of its estuary. It was presumably opened by the Kirkcudbright Rly on 7 March 1864, and closed to regular passenger traffic (with the line as a whole) on 3 May 1965.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 17 March 2006.

G Daniels and L Dench 1980; R V J Butt 1995.