Glenluce Viaduct

Location type

Bridge

Name and dates

Glenluce Viaduct (1861-1965)

Opened on the Portpatrick Railway.

Description

This is a disused masonry single track eight arch stone viaduct. It is west of the former Glenluce station and west of the former Challoch Junction. The viaduct is 327 ft long overall and 78 ft high.

Work began on the viaduct around 1858 and the line opened in 1861. The line closed in 1965.

As per the rest of the Portpatrick Railway, the engineers were B & E Blyth (Blyth and Blyth).

Tags

Viaduct Water of Luce

Aliases

Luce Viaduct



Chronology Dates

  /  /1861Portpatrick Railway
Glenluce Viaduct completed.

Books


Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Railways (Library of Railway History)
Rails to Portpatrick (Local History Series)
The Port Road: Dumfries to Stranraer, Portpatrick, Kirkcudbright and Whithorn