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Little Water Of Fleet Viaduct
Railway Viaduct (19th Century) - (20th Century)
Site Name Little Water Of Fleet Viaduct
Classification Railway Viaduct (19th Century) - (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Wee Water Of Fleet; Loch Skerrow Passing Place
Canmore ID 103348
Site Number NX56NE 3
NGR NX 58691 67085
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/103348
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Girthon
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Stewartry
- Former County Kirkcudbrightshire
NX56NE 3 58691 67085
Location formerly cited as from NX 5864 6707 to NX 5872 6708.
Not to be confused with Big Water of Fleet viaduct (NX 5578 6428 to 5603 6439), for which see NX56SE 9.
Little Water of Fleet Viaduct [NAT]
OS 1:10,000 map, 1979.
Little Water of Fleet Viaduct: 2 miles W of Loch Skerrow passing place. Nine masonry arches of local granite. Built 1860 by (contractors) McNaughton and Waddell; now demolished.
C E J Fryer 1991.
This viaduct was built for the Portpatrick Rly and opened on 12 March 1861. It comprised nine masonry arches, of greatest height 51 ft (15.5m). The line closed on 14 June 1965.
M Smith 1994.
This viaduct formerly carried the former Glasgow-Stranraer main line (the 'Port Road') of the Glasgow and South-Western Rly. across the Little Water of Fleet.
The location assigned to this record defines the centre of the structure. The available map evidence suggests that it extends from NX c. 58637 67076 to NX c. 58741 67089.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 14 March 2006.
