Cander Water Viaduct
Location type
BridgeName and dates
Cander Water Viaduct (1864-1935)Opened on the Lesmahagow Railway.
Description
This was a double track masonry arch viaduct, only carrying one track, built over the Cander Water. On the site of the bridge is a road bridge carrying the A71.
The bridge carried the 1864 Stonehouse and Cots Castle branch of the Lesmahagow Railway. The branch opened to goods and minerals at first and passengers from 1866.
With the opening, in 1905, of the Mid Lanark Lines (Caledonian Railway) the link over the viaduct became redundant and was closed between Canderside Exchange Sidings and Stonehouse [Lanarkshire] in 1935.
The bridge was demolished by Royal Engineers as a training exercise in World War 2.
Later the road bridge on the same site was built.
Tags
Viaduct Cander Water| Nearby stations Stonehouse [Lanarkshire] Netherburn Dalserf Larkhall Larkhall East Tillietudlem Blackwood [1st] Merryton Blackwood [2nd] Glassford Auchenheath Quarter Strathaven North Strathaven [Flemington] Ferniegair [3rd] | Canderside Colliery Overwood Quarry Siding Stonehouse Viaduct Stonehouse East Junction Avondale Colliery No 2 Pit Canderside Exchange Sidings Canderside Colliery Nos 6 and 7 Swinhill Colliery Pits Nos 5 and 6 Overwood Quarry Birkenshaw Brick Works Swinhill Colliery No 2 Pit Colliery Stonehouse West Junction Swinhill Colliery No 3 Pit Avon Sanitary Engineering Works |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
