Aultnaslanach Viaduct
Location type
BridgeName 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.
Two other timber trestle bridges survive in Scotland, Fallin Bridge and Fordmouth Bridge.
Tags
ViaductAliases
Moy ViaductExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
Facilities
Listing: A
| Nearby stations Moy Daviot Tomatin Culloden Moor Allanfearn Inverness Castle Stuart Platform Dalcross Clachnaharry Bunchrew Gollanfield Fort George [1st] Carrbridge Fort George [2nd] Lentran | 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. | |
Dates
| 19/07/1897 | Inverness 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). |
