Priestcrown Wood Embankment
Location type
PlaceName and dates
Priestcrown Wood Embankment (1850-)Opened on the Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway.
Description
Drivers on the A76 cannot fail to notice the immense buttressed masonry retaining wall on the east side of the road which supports the embankment of the double track Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway line. This portion of the line opened in 1850.
On the west side of the road is the drop down to the River Nith.
On the railway Ardoch Signal Box was to the north west and Enterkin Burn Viaduct is to the south east.
Tags
Embankment Retaining wall River Nith02/10/2019
Facilities
Listing: B| Nearby stations Carronbridge Wanlockhead Sanquhar Glengonnar Thornhill Leadhills Closeburn Kirkconnel Kirkland Elvanfoot Moniaive Crossford Ruttonside [Private] Crawford Auldgirth | Enterkin Burn Viaduct Drumlanrig Tunnel Carron Water Viaduct Gill Water Viaduct Mennock Sidings Mennock Water Viaduct Carronhill Glen (Newlands) Viaduct West Glencrieff Pit Sanquhar Tile Works Wanlockhead Crushing Mill Tourist/other Ardoch Signal Box Drumlanrig Castle Morton Castle Sanquhar Castle Wanlockhead Beam Engine |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Books
 An Illustrated History of Carlisle's Railways |  Carlisle To Beattock: including the Dumfries Branch (Scottish Main Lines) |  The Glasgow & South Western Railway a History |
