Sandilands Viaduct
Location type
BridgeName and dates
Sandilands Viaduct (1864-1968)Opened on the Douglas Branch (Caledonian Railway).
Description
This was a single track viaduct over the River Clyde between Sandilands [Lanarkshire] and Lanark stations.
The viaduct had six bowstring girders.
Piers were in groups of three and on a skew from the railway. The bracing between the piers was extraordinary with circular holes punched out - six larges holes arranged in two columns of three between the piers.
The line closed to passengers in 1964 but was retained until 1968 for access to Douglas Colliery, near Ponfeigh. The colliery was mothballed in 1967.
The piers have been removed but the abutments at either end, both of which are substantial, remain.
Earn Viaduct [Forgandenny] still exists and is built to a very similar design, only not as high.
Tags
Viaduct River ClydeAliases
Prett^s Mill Viaduct
| Nearby stations Sandilands [Lanarkshire] Lanark Racecourse Lanark Ponfeigh Cleghorn Carstairs Alton Heights Thankerton Happendon Brocketsbrae Lesmahagow [2nd] Bankhead [Lanarkshire] Auchlochan Halt Braidwood Carnwath | Hyndford Quarry Smyllum South Junction New Lanark Mills Smyllum West Junction Smyllum East Junction Caledonian Mineral Oil Works Cairngryffe Quarry Douglasdale Coal Pits Silvermuir South Junction Silvermuir Siding Douglasdale Colliery Silvermuir Junction Tourist/other Falls of Clyde Lanark Race Course Rigside Signal Box |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
