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Railway Viaduct, still in use, built in 1881. It was built as part of the North British Arbroath and Montrose Railway, receiving its Royal assent in 1871, however its construction was delayed while the Tay Bridge and the Dundee end of the line were completed. A viaduct originally built here by Sir Thomas Bouch in 1879, but following the collapse of the Tay Bridge on 28 December 1879, which was also designed by Bouch, the viaduct was tested. This section was pronounced unsafe, and was subsequently replaced in 1881 by Sir William Arrol to the design of W. R. Galbraith. A section to the south by Bouch was retained (NO75NW0053). It is a 16-span viaduct with a total length of 440m (1444 feet) of latticed wrought iron girders, with slight convex curve to each span, supported on 15 pairs of cross-braced cylindrical piers made of riveted wrought iron plates. There is a brick abutment with rectangular piers clasping the iron structure to each end. To the east is a short sloping wing wall, with a longer canted sloping wing wall to the west. In the late 1970s work began to substitute steel for timber decking, and to replace the old-style bridge rails. It was shot-blasted and repainted between 1989 and 1991.
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NO75NW0039 - SOUTH ESK VIADUCT, MONTROSE