General Information
| Completion: | 24 June 1862 |
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| Status: | out of service |
Project Type
| Structure: |
Semi-circular arch bridge |
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| Function / usage: |
Railroad (railway) bridge |
| Material: |
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Location
| Location: |
Hawick, Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom |
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| Coordinates: | 55° 20' 43.24" N 2° 45' 21.85" W |
Technical Information
Dimensions
| height | ca. 18 - 20 m | |
| total length | ca. 180 m | |
| arch span | 10 - 11 m | |
| number of arches | 15 |
Materials
| piers |
masonry
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| arches |
masonry
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Chronology
| January 1969 | Railway service ends. |
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Notes
On former double-track railway linking Edinburgh and Carlisle, opened 1862 (the 'Waverley route').
Viaduct in random masonry, extensive 'patching' in brick while in service, now deteriorating markedly.
Excerpt from Wikipedia
Shankend Viaduct is a former railway viaduct in the Scottish Borders just over six miles south of the town of Hawick. It is a category B listed building.
It carried the Edinburgh-Carlisle main line of the North British Railway, the Waverley Line, on 15 stone arches across the shallow Langside valley and the Langside burn. It has a maximum height of 18.3 metres (60 ft) and has been extensively repaired with brick patching.
The viaduct was the last section of the Waverley Line and was opened to goods traffic on 28 June 1862 and passenger traffic on 1 July 1862. The contract for the construction of the viaduct was awarded together with the nearby southern Whitrope Tunnel on the same line.
With the closure of the entire route on 6 January 1969, the viaduct became obsolete and the rails have since been removed. In the 2000s, the monument was extensively restored by BRB (Residuary) Limited.
Text imported from Wikipedia article "Shankend Viaduct" and modified on July 23, 2019 according to the CC-BY-SA 4.0 International license.
Participants
- Charles Jopp (designer)
Relevant Web Sites
Relevant Publications
- (2003): Britain's Historic Railway Buildings. An Oxford Gazetteer of Structures and Sites. Oxford University Press, Oxford (United Kingdom), pp. 798.
- About this
data sheet - Structure-ID
20010132 - Published on:
02/09/2003 - Last updated on:
01/01/2017
