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Stroan Viaduct

Railway Viaduct (19th Century)

Site Name Stroan Viaduct

Classification Railway Viaduct (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Black Water Of Dee; River Dee; Stroan Loch; Hensol Burn; New Galloway

Canmore ID 103347

Site Number NX67SW 9

NGR NX 64681 70002

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Dumfries And Galloway
  • Parish Balmaghie
  • Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
  • Former District Stewartry
  • Former County Kirkcudbrightshire

Archaeology Notes

NX67SW 9 64681 70002

Extends onto map sheet NX66NW.

Location formerly cited as NX 64663 70005.

For memorial (possibly associated with the viaduct) at NX 64734 70036, see NX67SW 44.

Stroan Viaduct [NAT]

OS 1:10,000 map, 1979.

Loch Stroan Viaduct, 1 mile W of New Galloway Station (NX67SE 11), across Black Water of Dee. Four arches, piers and abutments of masonry. Built 1860 by (contractors) McNaughton and Waddell. Still standing, and can be crossed on foot, with care.

C E J Fryer 1991.

This viaduct was built for the Portpatrick Rly and opened on 12 March 1861. It comprised four masonry arches, of greatest span 50 ft (15.2m). The line closed on 14 June 1965.

M Smith 1994.

This viaduct carried the former Glasgow-Stranraer main line (the 'Port Road') of the Glasgow and South-Western Rly. across the point where Stroan Loch flows out into the Black Water of Dee (River Dee), at the boundary between the parishes of Balmaghie (to the W) and Kells (to the E).

The location assigned to this record defines the centre of the structure. The available map evidence suggests that it extends from NX c. 64654 70005 to NX c. 64720 69992.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 14 March 2006.

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