Findhorn Viaduct [Forres]

Location type

Bridge

Name and dates

Findhorn Viaduct [Forres] (1858-)

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

Where: Moray, Scotland
Opened on the Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway.

Description

This is a wrought iron single track box girder viaduct over the River Findhorn a little west of Forres station. Trains pass through the box girders. The viaduct is 609 ft long overall with three girder sections, two piers being on the riverbed. The engineer was Joseph Mitchell.

While under construction the railway to the west opened, with a short lived terminus Dalvey [1st] west of the river serving Forres.

The original Boat o' Brig Viaduct was similar.

Tags

Viaduct River Findhorn

Facilities

Listing: A

Nearby stations
Forres [2nd]
Forres
Forres [1st]
Dalvey [Forres]
Dallas Dhu Halt
Rafford
Brodie
Kinloss [3rd]
Findhorn
Kinloss [2nd]
Auldearn
Dunphail
Coltfield Platform
Alves
Burghead [1st]
Forres West Junction
Forres Shed
Forres South Junction
Forres East Junction
Bowmanhill Ballast Siding
Dallas Dhu Siding
Scurrypool Bridge
Tourist/other
Benromach Distillery
Dalvey House
Falconer Museum
Nelson^s Tower
Dallas Dhu Distillery
Sueno^s Stone
Brodie Castle
Findhorn Bay
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.


Books


Forres and Area Past and Present

Landranger (27) Nairn & Forres, River Findhorn (OS Landranger Map)

Old Forres

OS Explorer Map (423) Elgin, Forres and Lossiemouth (OS Explorer Active Map)

Time Does Transfix: Recollections of a Forres Railwayman