White Cart Water Viaduct

Location type

Bridge

Name and dates

White Cart Water Viaduct (1903-)

Opened on the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway.

Description

This double track viaduct carries the former Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway over the White Cart Water with an elegant single arch. Although a concrete bridge it is faced with sandstone.

Contractor, as per the rest of the line, Robert McAlpine.

Cathcart station is just to the north, its east end carried over the White Cart Water on a girder bridge.

Tags

Viaduct

Facilities

Listing: B

Books


Forgotten Railways: Scotland