Aultnaslanach Viaduct

Location type

Bridge

Name and dates

Aultnaslanach Viaduct (1897-)

Opened on the Inverness and Aviemore Direct Railway (Highland Railway).

Description

Also known as the Moy Viaduct, this single track timber viaduct is north of Moy station. It has sufficient width for two lines, but a second was never laid. The length is roughly 132 ft.

It required steel reinforcing in 2001/2.

The bridge is a trestle bridge with five spans. The line 'floats' across a bog here, unable to take the weight of a conventional bridge.

The viaduct crosses the Allt na Slanaich burn.

Another timber trestle bridge survives in Scotland, Fordmouth Bridge.

Tags

Viaduct

Aliases

Moy Viaduct

External links

Canmore site record
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
08/07/2021

Facilities

Listing: A




Nearby stations
Moy
Daviot
Tomatin
Culloden Moor
Ness Islands Railway
Allanfearn
Inverness
Inverness Innes Street Ticket Platform
Castle Stuart Platform
Inverness Harbour [Station]
Dalcross
Clachnaharry
Inverness Airport [Station]
Bunchrew
Gollanfield
Tomatin Viaduct
Findhorn Viaduct [Tomatin]
Leanach Quarry
Clava Bridge
Culloden Viaduct
Slochd Summit
Tourist/other
Loch Moy
Tomatin Distillery
Tomatin House
Clava Cairns
Culloden Battlefield Memorial
Cumberland^s Stone
Flichity House
Cradlehall House
Knocknagael Boar Stone
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.


Chronology Dates

19/07/1897Inverness and Aviemore Direct Railway (Highland Railway)
Carrbridge to Daviot opened. This section includes the Aultnaslanach Viaduct, (currently the only in use timber railway viaduct left in Scotland).