Larichmore Viaduct
Railway Viaduct (19th Century) - (20th Century)
Site Name Larichmore Viaduct
Classification Railway Viaduct (19th Century) - (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Larichmore Railway Viaduct; Drochaid Na Laraiche Moire
Canmore ID 107588
Site Number NM68NE 24
NGR NM 67457 86612
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/107588
- Council Highland
- Parish Arisaig And Moidart
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Lochaber
- Former County Inverness-shire
In 1897-1901, making pioneering use of mass concrete, engineers Simpson & Wilson produced for the North British Railway's 40 mile West Highland Line extension a series of bridges, culverts, platforms, retaining walls, 11 tunnels and six viaducts, which have defied corrosion. This monument to concrete engineering earned for its contractor Robert McAlpine the nickname 'Concrete Bob'. Viaducts: six-arched at Arnabol, eight-arched at Loch Nam Uamh (four each side of a great central concrete pylon); three-arched (with rusticated voussoirs) crossing the Brunery Burn at Larachmor and, most daring of all, a central span leaping 12 7.5 ft over a steep gully at Borrodale, twice the span of any existing arch at the time.
Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
NM68NE 24 67457 86612
A RCAHMS photographic survey of Larichmore Viaduct was undertaken, during July 1997, in order to enhance and augment the existing National Monuments Record Scotland holdings.
Visited by RCAHMS(MKO), July 1998.
