Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,105 pages of information and 246,739 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Lugar Viaduct

From Graces Guide
2022

There is scope for confusion about the names of viaducts in this area. 'Lugar Viaduct' appears on a commemorative plaque on the viaduct, and is the name used by R Paxton and J Shipway (see below), who give the map reference as NS 5739 2062. This viaduct is also known as Bank Viaduct and Templand Viaduct. The others in the Cumnock area are known as Murray Park Viaduct or Glaisnock Viaduct; Bellow Viaduct or Glenmuir Viaduct; Rosebank Viaduct.[1]

Completed in 1850 for the Glasgow and South Western Railway. Still in rail service.

Crosses the Lugar Water near Cumnock. 752 ft long. Maximum height of 161 1/2 ft. 14 semicircular arches. Hollow piers and spandrels.[2]

Engineer: John Miller. Contractor: James McNaughton.

See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. 'Britain's Historic Railway Buildings' by Gordon Biddle, Oxford University Press, 2003
  2. 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders' by Roland Paxton and Jim Shipway, Thomas Telford Publishers, 2007.