Archaeology Notes

Event ID 794042

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS56NE 1230 56041 69432

Location formerly cited as NS 5604 6943.

Viaduct [NAT]

OS 1:1250 map, 1976.

Viaduct, built c. 1858 for the Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Rly. A masonry structure, with seven semicircular arches, carrying a double line of railway over the River Kelvin.

J R Hume 1974.

This viaduct carries a multi-track railway across the River Kelvin to the N of Dawsholm Gasworks (NS56NE 64) and immediately W of Maryhill Park Junction (NS56NE 4896.00). The river here forms the boundary between the parishes of Glasgow (to the E) and Govan (to the W).

The cited location defines the centre of the span. The 1976 edition of the OS 1:1250 map indicates that the viaduct extended from NS c. 56017 69425 to NS c. 56050 69443.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 13 December 2005.