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Port Elphinstone, The Stanners, Railway Bridge
Railway Bridge (19th Century)
Site Name Port Elphinstone, The Stanners, Railway Bridge
Classification Railway Bridge (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Aberdeenshire Canal Navigation; Aberdeen - Inverurie Canal
Canmore ID 81764
Site Number NJ72SE 125
NGR NJ 7808 2013
NGR Description NJ 7808 2013 to NJ 7811 1996
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/81764
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Kintore
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ72SE 125 7808 2013 to 7811 1996. LIN 14.
Formerly LIN 523.
The present bridge has apparently replaced a bridge of five girder spans on timber piles which was the only major engineering work between Aberdeen and Inverurie, and was opened to regular passenger traffic on 20 September 1854.
H A Vallance 1991.
This decktype bridge is of steel and masonry construction. It dates from 1880 and carries the (Aberdeen - Inverurie) main line of the (former) Great North of Scotland Railway over the River Don (to the N) and the Aberdeen - Inverurie Canal (to the S). It crosses the boundary between Kintore and Inverurie parishes.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM) 5 December 1994.
