Tilt Viaduct

Location type

Bridge

Name and dates

Tilt Viaduct (1863-)

Opened on the Inverness and Perth Junction Railway.

Description

This single track 150ft lattice girder viaduct is just east of Blair Atholl station's level crossing and crosses the River Tilt. The bridge has fine castellated stone abutments at either end (to please the Duke of Atholl whose Blair Castle is about half a mile to the north). The engineer was Joseph Mitchell.

Tags

Viaduct River Tilt

Aliases

Blair Atholl Viaduct

External links

Canmore site record
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map


Books


Bradshaw's Guides Scotlands Railways West Coast - Carlisle to Inverness: 5

Highland Railway Album: No. 1

Highland Railway Album: No. 2

Highland Railway Carriages and Wagons

Highland Railway: People and Places - From the Inverness and Nairn Railway to Scotrail

The Highland Railway

The Highland Railway : The History of the Railways of the Scottish Highlands - Vol 2