Scotland’s Railways · Port Road explorer
The Port Road: Dumfries to Stranraer
A railway across Galloway, linking rural communities with Dumfries and the Irish Sea crossing at Stranraer.
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Engineering on The Port Road
Three rights-cleared modern photographs introduce surviving Port Road viaducts and lead into the engineering story of the route.
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Viaduct
Loch Ken Viaduct
North of Parton
The curving masonry-and-iron viaduct carried the Port Road across Loch Ken north of Parton.
- Type
- Viaduct
- Railway
- The Port Road
- Source reference
- NRHE-64229; PR-S07
About this structure
The national catalogue records the centre and extent of the structure. The listed-building record dates it to 1861 and names D and E Blyth as engineers.
Viaduct
Stroan Loch Viaduct
Mossdale, west of New Galloway
The four-arch masonry viaduct carried the Port Road across the outflow from Stroan Loch, west of New Galloway station.
- Type
- Viaduct
- Railway
- The Port Road
- Source reference
- NRHE-103347; PR-S07
About this structure
The national catalogue records four masonry arches, construction by McNaughton and Waddell in 1860, and opening with the railway on 12 March 1861.
Viaduct
Big Water of Fleet Viaduct
East of Gatehouse of Fleet
The Port Road’s largest viaduct crossed the Big Water of Fleet on twenty masonry arches east of Gatehouse of Fleet.
- Type
- Viaduct
- Railway
- The Port Road
- Source reference
- NRHE-74204; PR-S07
About this structure
The national catalogue records a length of about 900 feet, a maximum height of 70 feet, construction in 1860–61 and later brick strengthening of the piers.
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