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Latitude: 57.498 / 57°29'52"N
Longitude: -3.6336 / 3°38'0"W
OS Eastings: 302192
OS Northings: 846481
OS Grid: NJ021464
Mapcode National: GBR K8DX.28N
Mapcode Global: WH5HQ.4SZW
Plus Code: 9C9RF9X8+5H
Entry Name: Divie Railway Viaduct, Edinkillie
Listing Name: Edinkillie Railway Viaduct (Divie Viaduct) over River Divie
Listing Date: 26 January 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 333068
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB2189
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinkillie, Divie Railway Viaduct
Edinkillie Railway Viaduct
ID on this website: 200333068
Location: Edinkillie
County: Moray
Electoral Ward: Forres
Parish: Edinkillie
Traditional County: Morayshire
Tagged with: Railway bridge
Joseph Mitchell, chief engineer, 1861-3. High 7-span
viaduct. Bull-faced rubble, tooled ashlar dressings. 7 bull-
faced rubble arch rings supported by tall piers of similar
masonry; approach causeways flanked by castellated turrets
with dummy arrow slits; octagonal crenellated end piers.
Coped parapet with mirrored plaques at centre, facing railway
track.
Span; each arch - 45'. Height above river bed; 106' Overall
length; 477'.
Constructed for Inverness and Perth Junction Railway.
Plaques record Joseph Mitchell as Engineer in Chief and the
following as assistant engineers; W and M Paterson, John
Robinson, Hay, MacDowall and John Robertson. Contractor;
George Meakin, Birkenhead and John Dallas, Forres.
Foundation stone of viaduct laid by Lady Elma Bruce, 20 Oct
1861. Cost $10,231.
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