Archaeology Notes

Event ID 770471

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO88NE 62 8883 8800 to 8886 8812

Not to be confused with Glenury Viaduct (NO 8680 8680 to 8700 8701), for which see NO88NE 60.

(Location cited as NO 880 881). Viaduct, Skatie Shore. Opened c. 1850 by The Aberdeen Rly; rebuilt c. 1880 and again recently. A 4-span viaduct with plate girders (formerly wooden trusses) on masonry piers. There are small semicircular access arches in the abutments.

J R Hume 1977.

This viaduct carries the Glasgow-Aberdeen (main) line of the former Caledonian Rly. (which was extensively used by Edinburgh-Aberdeen trains of the former North British Rly.) over the Den of Cowie.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 19 September 1997.

Air photograph: AAS/97/07/G15/24.

NMRS, MS/712/29.