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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 770472

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/770472

NO88NE 60 86807 86813 to 86999 87013

Not to be confused with Skatie Shore viaduct (NO 8883 8800 to 8886 8812), for which see NO88NE 62.

(Location cited as NO 868 869). Glenury Viaduct, opened c. 1850 by rhe Aberdeen Rly. and rebuilt 1883-4 by Blaikie Bros., Aberdeen. A 10-span viaduct, with wrought-iron plate girders (formerly wooden arches) on masonry piers.

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 deep valley of the Cowie Water.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 19 September 1997.

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