Priestcrown Wood Embankment

Location type

Place

Name and dates

Priestcrown Wood Embankment (1850-)

Opened on the Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway.

Description

Drivers on the A76 cannot fail to notice the immense buttressed masonry retaining wall on the east side of the road which supports the embankment of the double track Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway line. This portion of the line opened in 1850.

On the west side of the road is the drop down to the River Nith.

On the railway Ardoch Signal Box was to the north west and Enterkin Burn Viaduct is to the south east.

Tags

Embankment Retaining wall River Nith
02/10/2019

Facilities

Listing: B

Books


An Illustrated History of Carlisle's Railways

Carlisle To Beattock: including the Dumfries Branch (Scottish Main Lines)

The Glasgow & South Western Railway a History