Record details
| ID: | MHG3007 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Nairn Viaduct |
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Reports
| Grid Reference: | NH 76431 44913 |
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| Map Sheet: | NH74SE |
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| Civil Parish: | CROY AND DALCROSS |
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| Geographical Area: | INVERNESS |
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Monument Types
| Protected Status: | Listed Building (A) 1709: Clava, Nairn Viaduct Over the River Nairn, otherwise Known As Culloden Moor Viaduct |
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Other References/Statuses
- Historic Environment Record: MHG3007
- NMRS NUMLINK Reference: 14272
- NMRS Record Details: NH74SE23 CLAVA, NAIRN VIADUCT
- Non-Statutory Register (R)
- Old SMR Reference Number: NH74SE0022
Full description
Description and photographs of it being built. Inverness FC Vol V p184 - HAW 9.2002
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Inv/Culloden & Ardersier Local Plan, April 1994: P38/2.11.9.
POLICY - 2.5.13 will apply.
J Aitken : 23/05/01.
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NH74SE 23 7646 4462 to 7637 4512
For (adjacent) Culloden Moor Station, see NH74NE 41.00.
Nairn Viaduct [NAT]
OS 1:10,000 map, 1990.
A remarkable 28-span masonry viaduct, the longest in Scotland and built on a curve.
J R Hume 1977.
This double-track viaduct is the longest masonry railway viaduct in Scotland. It was designed by Murdoch Paterson for the Highland Rly across the River Findhorn; it opened on 1 November 1898 and remains in use.
M Smith 1994.
This viaduct carries the (current and diversion) Perth-Inverness main line across the River Nairn, which here forms the boundary between the portions of Croy and Dalcross parish in Inverness District (Inverness-shire) and Nairn District (Nairn). It is approached by massive embankments on both N and S and forms a short break in the otherwise-unrelenting climb of the railway heading S from Inverness.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 14 June 1996.
Opened to traffic 1.11.1898
Sources and further reading
| --- | Image/Photograph(s): Dalroy, Nairn Viaduct.. Colour Slide; Digital Image. . . |
| --- | Image/Photograph(s): Dalroy, Nairn Viaduct.. Colour Slide; Digital Image. . . |
| --- | Text/Publication/Volume: Hume, J R. 1977. The industrial archaeology of Scotland 2: The Highlands and Islands. Paper (Original). 205. |
| --- | Text/Publication/Volume: Smith, M. 1994. British railway bridges and viaducts. 144-7. |
| --- | Image/Photograph(s)/Aerial Photograph: Nairn viaduct. Colour Print. . . |
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