Luce Viaduct
Railway Viaduct (19th Century) - (20th Century)
Site Name Luce Viaduct
Classification Railway Viaduct (19th Century) - (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Glenluce Viaduct; Cross Water Of Luce
Canmore ID 61209
Site Number NX15NE 62
NGR NX 19180 57324
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/61209
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Old Luce
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Wigtown
- Former County Wigtownshire
NX15NE 62 19180 57324
Luce Viaduct [NAT]
OS 1:10,000 map, 1991.
Location formerly entered as NX 1911 5730 to NX 1924 5735.
For corresponding road bridge, see NX15NE 17.
Water of Luce (Luce) Viaduct: this structure spanned the Water of Luce, while the main road passed in a sweeping curve between its arches. Built of whinstone, it comprised eight arches of 42ft [12.8m] span; the height of the rail above road was 47ft 6ins [14.3m].
[This is presumably the viaduct across the Cross Water of Luce that a report written in 1892, after the takeover of the line by the Glasgow and South Western Rly, noted as having 'piles split and thoroughly repaired'.]
D L Smith 1969.
Glenluce Viaduct: across Water of Luce 1/2 mile W of Glenluce Station (NX15NE 135). 8 arches on brick piers: still standing and can be crossed on foot with care. Built 1860 by (contractors) James Falshaw and Co.
C E J Fryer 1991.
(Location cited as NX 192 573). Viaduct, Glenluce. This viaduct was opened in 1861 by the Portpatrick Rly. It comprises eight masonry spans with segmental arches; the arch rings and the quoins of the piers are of dressed stone while the remainder of the structure is of rubble but has been extensively repaired in brick.
J R Hume 1976.
This viaduct was built for the Portpatrick Rly and opened on 12 March 1861. It was an eight-arch stone structure, 47 ft (14.3m) high. The line closed on 14 June 1965.
M Smith 1994.
Viaduct, by B and E Blyth, 1858-61. Built of whinstone, and repaired in dark red brick. Eight segmental arches carried on trapezoidal piers.
J Gifford 1996.
This bridge formerly carried the former Dumfries-Stranraer line (the 'Port Road') of the Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Rly. across the Water of Luce and a a public road (the former line of the A75) immediately below Bridge of Park (NX15NE 17), to the W of Glenluce village (NX15NE 52) and to the E of Challoch Junction (NX15NE 145).
The location assigned to this structure defines the midpoint of the structure. The available map evidence suggests that it extends from NX c. 19127 57301 to NX c. 19226 57343. The river passes under the viaduct to the W of its midpoint.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 16 March 2006.
Luce Viaduct [NAT]
OS (GIS) MasterMap, July 2009.
