Elvanfoot Viaduct

Location type

Bridge

Name and dates

Elvanfoot Viaduct (1848-)

Opened on the Caledonian Railway.

Description

This is a double track viaduct over the Elvan Water just west of the site of the former Elvanfoot station.

To the west the Elvan Water Viaduct carried the Leadhills and Wanlockhead Light Railway and to the south east the Bodsberry Viaduct crosses the River Clyde.

Tags

Viaduct Elvan Water

Aliases

Elvan Water Viaduct [Elvanfoot]

Nearby stations
Elvanfoot
Crawford
Abington
Leadhills
Glengonnar
Wanlockhead
Ruttonside [Private]
Lamington
Victoria Lodge
Auchencastle
Carronbridge
Moffat
Crook
Sanquhar
Symington [1st]
Bodsberry Viaduct
Bodsberry Hill
Elvan Water Viaduct
Start of River Clyde
Crawford Viaduct [Camps Reservoir Railway]
Crawford Viaduct
Beattock Summit
Risping Cleuch Viaduct
Leadhills Shed
Leadhills Washing Mill
Campshead Quarry
Wilson^s Shaft
Tourist/other
Bodsberry Level Crossing
Crawford Castle
Camps Reservoir
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.


Chronology Dates

  /02/1998Caledonian Railway
£150,000 project to replace bridge deck of Elvanfoot Viaduct.
08/12/2001Caledonian Railway
Elvanfoot Viaduct replaced between the 8th and 10th.

Books


An Illustrated History of Carlisle's Railways

Bradshaw's Guides Scotlands Railways West Coast - Carlisle to Inverness: 5

Caledonian Dunalastairs and Associated Classes (Locomotive Monograph)

Caledonian in LMS Days (Railways in Retrospect)

Caledonian Railway

Caledonian Railway Carriages

Caledonian Railway Livery: The True Line Elegance and Style

Caledonian Railway Wagons & Non-Passenger Coaching Stock

Caledonian Routes 3: Stirling to Crianlarich - DVD - Oakwood Press

Caley to the Coast: Rothesay by Wemyss Bay (Oakwood Library of Railway History)

Callander & Oban Railway Through Time

Callander and Oban Railway (Library of Railway History)

Carlisle To Beattock: including the Dumfries Branch (Scottish Main Lines)

Carlisle to Hawick: The Waverley Route (Scml)

Signalling the Caledonian Railway

The Caledonian Railway 'jumbos' the 18in. X 26in. 0-6-0s

The Caledonian, Scotland's Imperial Railway: A History

The Vanished Railways of Old Western Dunbartonshire (Britains Railways/Old Photos)

Through Scotland with the Caledonian Railway

Vanished Railways of West Lothian