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Lochearnhead Viaduct

Location type

Bridge

Name and dates

Lochearnhead Viaduct (1904-1951)

Opened on the Lochearnhead, St Fillans and Comrie Railway.

Description

This is a single track mass concrete viaduct on a tight curve with nine arches. It is 141 yds long overall and 50 ft high. The viaduct crosses the south end of Glen Ogle, and the Ogle Burn, at the west end of Loch Earn at Lochearnhead. It is akin to the much more famous Glenfinnan Viaduct but no longer carries a railway. It has nine arches.

The viaduct is splendid and is perhaps best seen from the footpath which now occupies the former trackbed of the Callander and Oban Railway on the hillside above, best viewed in Winter when there are fewer leaves.

Tags

Viaduct

Nearby stations Lochearnhead [2nd] Balquhidder [1st] Balquhidder [2nd] Kingshouse Halt Glenoglehead Crossing Killin Junction Strathyre Killin [2nd] Loch Tay St Fillans Luib Craig-na-Cailleach Platform Dalchonzie Platform Callander (Dreadnought) Callander Ticket Platform	Edinchip Viaduct [LSFCR] Edinchip Accommodation Bridge Glen Ogle Rockfall Edinchip Viaduct [C and O] Glenbeich Viaduct Glen Ogle Small Viaduct Glen Ogle Viaduct Balquhidder Shed Leitters Gold Mine Ardveich Wood Viaduct Tourist/other Lochearnhead Hotel Edinchip House Loch Earn Mhor84 Balquhidder Old Church
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.

Chronology Dates

/ /1907	Lochearnhead, St Fillans and Comrie Railway Authorisation to buy land at Derry Farm Crossing Place (about half a mile east of Lochearnhead Viaduct). Permission to build railwaymen's houses.