Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands
Date 2007
Event ID 934238
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/934238
Glenfinnan Viaduct
(Institute Civil Engineers Historic Engineering Works no. HEW 0021/01)
This spectacular viaduct winds round the hillside, far back and above the Jacobite memorial tower. Its 21 semicircular arched concrete spans of 50 ft, largely completed by 1898, cross 100 ft above the Finnan on an 800 ft radius curve. The width between parapets is 18 ft. Each span has a joint
at the crown to allow shrinkage movement of the concrete. The two ‘King’ piers are hollow.
The cost of the viaduct was £18 904.
R Paxton and J Shipway, 2007.
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands' with kind permission from Thomas Telford Publishers.
