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Latitude: 57.5511 / 57°33'3"N
Longitude: -3.1401 / 3°8'24"W
OS Eastings: 331865
OS Northings: 851791
OS Grid: NJ318517
Mapcode National: GBR L8MR.S99
Mapcode Global: WH6JW.QGWM
Plus Code: 9C9RHV25+CX
Entry Name: Railway Bridge, Boat O' Brig
Listing Name: Boat O' Brig Railway Viaduct over River Spey
Listing Date: 9 November 1987
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 349541
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB15849
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Boat O' Brig, Railway Bridge
ID on this website: 200349541
Location: Rothes
County: Moray
Electoral Ward: Speyside Glenlivet
Parish: Rothes
Traditional County: Banffshire
Tagged with: Railway bridge
Joseph Mitchell, 1858. Viaduct comprising steel lattice-
girder (1906, replacing former plate-girder bridge) with
6-span approach at W bank, single span at E bank. Tooled
ashlar, some bull-faced ashlar dressings.
W bank: 3 wide and 3 narrower rusticated and keystoned
arch rings, the wider close to river bank and supported by
bull-faced ashlar cutwaters.
E bank: single arch ring borne on bull-faced cutwaters.
Panelled pilastered end abutments. String courses; ashlar
copes.
Approximate span; steel girder bridge; 250'.
Approximate overall span; 635'.
Viaduct first constructed with plate-girder span which was
replaced in 1906 with present bridge. Plaque (1905) records
Messrs Head Wrightson of Thornaby-on-Tees as contractors,
William Roberts, Engineer and William Whitelaw, Chairman,
Highland Railway. Also known as spey (orten) viaduct.
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