Glenury Viaduct
Location type
BridgeName and dates
Glenury Viaduct (1849-)Opened on the Aberdeen Railway.
Description
This was a 14 span double track viaduct and is now a 10 span girder viaduct. It crosses Glen Ury and the Cowrie Water.
The viaduct originally had timber arches between the stone piers. Reconstruction with iron girders began in 1883 and was completed in 1885, one of several bridges rebuilt on the Caledonian Railway system in this period.
The Glenury Royal Distillery was to the south east.
The viaduct is north east of Stonehaven station.
Tags
Viaduct Cowrie WaterExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
| Nearby stations Stonehaven Limpet Mill Muchalls Den Cottage Platform Newtonhill Carmont Drumlithie Portlethen Culter [1st] Culter [2nd] Drum Park Milltimber [1st] Milltimber [2nd] Mills of Drum | Fetteresso Viaduct Den of Cowie Viaduct Limpet Corn Mill Muchalls Mill Viaduct Carron Water Bridge [East Croft of Carmont] Carron Water Bridge [East Carmont] Muchalls Viaduct Carron Water Bridge [West Carmont] Elsick Viaduct Bervie Water Viaduct Tourist/other Glenury Royal Distillery Fetteresso Castle Dunnottar Castle Dunnottar Signal Box Grassic Gibbon Centre |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
