Skares Viaduct
Location type
BridgeName and dates
Skares Viaduct (1872-1966)Opened on the Ayr and Cumnock Line (Glasgow and South Western Railway).
Description
This is an eight arch viaduct. It was built to carry a double track but for years only carried a single line, on its south side. It is located between the former Skares station, to the west, and Dykes Junction, to the east.
The signal box for Dykes Junction was to the west of the viaduct, on the south side of the line.
A loop was installed on the line between the station and junction, the loop being laid between the station's goods yard and the junction.
The railway was cut back to Dykes Junction (excluded) from the east in 1964. It closed westwards to Belston Junction (excluded) in 1966.
The viaduct still stands.
Tags
Viaduct| Nearby stations Skares Dumfries House Ochiltree Auchinleck Cumnock [1st] Cumnock [2nd] Commondyke Lugar Catrine Sinclairston (Private) Cronberry Mauchline Cairntable Halt Drongan Rankinston | Dykes Junction Dumfries House Siding Whitehill Junction Whitehill 1,2 Colliery Knockterra Signal Box Knockterra Pit Dykes Pit No 1 Garallan Colliery Whitehill 3,4 Colliery Skares Brickworks Hindsward Colliery Skares Quarry Glengyron Box Hindsward 3, 4 Tourist/other Dumfries House [House] |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
