Location type

Bridge

Name and dates

Carron Water Bridge [West Carmont] (1848-)

Note: text in square brackets is added for clarity and was not part of the location's name.

Opened on the Aberdeen Railway.

Description

This is a double track masonry bridge over the Carron Water between Carmont and Stonehaven. It is one of three bridges over the Carron Water, this being closest to Carmont and located in a water course's defile.

A short lived halt, Den Cottage Platform, was to the south west, closer to Carmont.

Stonehaven Derailment

The serious derailment of a Inter7City train returning north from a landside blocking the line south of Carmont occurred on the 12th of August 2020. This accident led to the deaths of the driver Brett McCullough, conductor Donald Dinnie and passenger Christopher Stuchbury. (See News section.)

Tags

Bridge

Nearby stations Den Cottage Platform Carmont Drumlithie Stonehaven Limpet Mill Fordoun Muchalls Inverbervie Crathes Mills of Drum Milton of Crathes Crathes Castle Platform Newtonhill Gourdon Park	Carron Water Bridge [East Carmont] Carron Water Bridge [East Croft of Carmont] Fetteresso Viaduct Bervie Water Viaduct Glenury Viaduct Den of Cowie Viaduct Limpet Corn Mill Muchalls Mill Viaduct Durris Bridge [1st] Muchalls Viaduct Tourist/other Dunnottar Signal Box Fetteresso Castle Glenury Royal Distillery Dunnottar Castle Grassic Gibbon Centre
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.