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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 832732
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/832732
NN94NE 13 99497 47943
Location previously cited as NN 9948 4791 to NN 9953 4803.
NMRS REFERENCE:
Engineer: Joseph Mitchell, 1861-2.
(Undated) information in NMRS.
(Location cited as NN 994 480). Dalguise Viaduct, opened 1863 by the Inverness and Perth Junction Rly, engineer Joseph Mitchell. It is a monumental structure with two wrought-iron lattice-girder spans of 210 ft (64m) and 141 ft (42.9m) respectively supported on a masonry pier and abutments which are carried up to form castellated terminals.
J R Hume 1977.
This viaduct was designed by Joseph Mitchell to carry the Inverness and Perth Junction Rly across the River Tay and opened on 9 September 1863 at a cost of £20,395; it remains in use. It is of lattice girder type with stone piers and abutments and measures 516 ft (157.3m) in overall length and 67 ft (20.4m) in height; it comprises two spans of 210 ft (64m) and 141 ft (42.9m) respectively.
M Smith 1994.
This viaduct carries the Perth-Inverness main line of the former Highland Rly over the River Tay to the NE of Dalguise village (NN94NE 31). The river here forms the boundary between the parishes of Little Dunkeld (to the SW) and Dunkeld and Dowally (to the NE). It remains in regular use by passenger traffic.
This viaduct is depicted, but no noted, on the 1977 edition of the OS 1:10,000 map. The available map evidence indicates that it extends from NN c. 99476 47895 to NN c. 99538 48028.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 13 June 1996.
