Architecture Notes

Event ID 790361

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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The viaduct is partly in Midcalder parish.

A stone built viaduct over the Linthouse Glen and carrying the main line railway from Carstairs Junction to Edinburgh. It consists of six segmental arches and is of dressed stonework.

The viaduct is A listed and was completed in 1842 by the Caledonian Railway Company as part of their main line from the S to Edinburgh.

Information from RCAHMS (DE), April 2010.