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This substantial four 50ft arch aqueduct carries the Forth and Clyde Canal over the River Kelvin. The river passes under the two western arches. Engineer: Robert Whitworth. Construction began in 1787 and the canal through to Bowling opened in 1790.

East of the aqueduct are the Kelvin Dock and Maryhill Locks. To the west is Dawsholm Quay.

Under the two eastern arches were lines from the Glasgow Central Railway's Dawsholm Gas Works branch.

Dawsholm station, a short lived terminus, was to the south. Painted onto the aqueduct's parapet in large capital letters, and visible from the north, was:
CALEDONIAN RAILWAY DAWSHOLM PASSENGER STATION
The text, black on a painted white background, remains still partly visible.

Parallel, and to the south, was the Kelvindale Viaduct [Gas Works] carrying the line to Temple Gas Works which also crossed the Kelvin. The piers remain standing today.

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