Earn Viaduct [Strageath]

Location type

Bridge

Name and dates

Earn Viaduct [Strageath] (1856-1964)

Note: text in square brackets is added for clarity and was not part of the location's name.

Opened on the Crieff Junction Railway.

Description

This was a three span single track bowstring girder viaduct over the River Earn between Strageath Halt and Highlandman. The piers remain.

The original bridge was timber, the only timber bridge on the line, with nine spans. It was replaced in 1885.

Tags

Viaduct

Books


A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: The North of Scotland v. 15 (Regional railway history series)

Branch Lines of Strathearn: Tourists, Tatties and Trains

Forgotten Railways: Scotland

Scotland’s Lost Branch Lines: Where Beeching Got It Wrong

Scottish Central Railway (Oakwood Library of Railway History)