Netherton, Aqueduct
Aqueduct (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Netherton, Aqueduct
Classification Aqueduct (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Slamannan Railway, Iron Aqueduct
Canmore ID 279355
Site Number NS97SW 65
NGR NS 94471 74194
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/279355
- Council Falkirk
- Parish Muiravonside
- Former Region Central
- Former District Falkirk
- Former County Stirlingshire
Project (2007)
This project was undertaken to input site information listed in 'Civil engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders' by R Paxton and J Shipway, 2007.
Publication Account (2007)
The Slamannan Railway, which extended from Airdriehill in Lanarkshire through Slamannan to Causewayend on the Union Canal, a distance of some 1212 miles, was made to supply Edinburgh with Monkland coal. The line, now long disused, was opened in 1840 and was followed in 1851 by a 4 1/2 mile branch line to Bo’ness.
Approaching the Union Canal there is a deep cutting on the railway at Candie near Avonbridge. This cutting is
spanned by a cast-iron trough carrying a burn – Slamannan Railway overbridge No. 25. The trough is supported on an elegant cast-iron sub-structure consisting of three archesformed of angle sections in a semi-elliptical shape, the centre one spanning about 30 ft. The arches spring from circular cast-iron columns in pairs. The engineer was John MacNeill, Telford’s former chief assistant.
R Paxton and J Shipway 2007
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders' with kind permission from Thomas Telford Publishers.
