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Site of a viaduct. A remarkable 8-span viaduct with ribbed elliptical arches, two of which had the ribs extended down almost to ground level. The parapets were castellated. Built in about 1840 for the Arbroath and Forfar Rly., which was later absorbed by the Caledonian Rly., this viaduct stood on the eastern side of what was formerly a triangular junction with the Caledonian main line to Aberdeen and formed part of the earliest railway link between Arbroath and Montrose. This line was rendered obsolete when the North British Rly. constructed a direct coastal route in the 1880s, and the viaduct had ceased to be used for railway traffic before 1914. Constructed on a slightly curved north-south axis over the Lunan Water and its tributaries at the western end of Friockheim village, the viaduct had an overall length of about 189 m and a width of 8.46 m. It has a battlemented parapet and a slabstone deck carried by eight out of an original series of nine ribbed elliptical arches of 18.29 m spans. The soffit of each arch has six ribs bonded by six transverse ribs, two of which occur at each crown. At the southern end, there are two infilled blind arches and a road-cutting, all subsequently modified in connection with a girder bridge. The masonry throughout was of local red sandstone with tooled or pecked ashlar dressings and snecked rubble walling which approaches ashlar standards in its quality of execution and jointing. Demolished after 1998, possible abutments survive on earthworks of track on either side of site of viaduct.
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NO54NE0044 - FRIOCKHEIM, RAILWAY VIADUCT