The Viaduct

Through the years

 

Class 40 in 1964

 

Voyagers over the Viaduct

 

Class 45 over Viaduct

 

Viaduct with engineering train

 

The Viaduct & Lainshaw Mill

 

The Viaduct & Annick

 

The Viaduct during the 60's

 

Class 101 & Viaduct

Black Five 5407

 

Celtic Freighter over Viaduct

 

DMU Crossing Viaduct

 

 

The Viaduct

Beneath taut bellies our stragging township lurks.
Stone limbs stretch tall above the tree tops,

straddling road and river with geometric shadow;

thrusting the stranger into our midst through arches filled with scenery.

Other Worlds hide in the chiselled patterns,

of silver etched with yellow,

worked by men long dead

whose idling pride

rests on the air above their memorial

then revvs into sifted nothing;

saddling the sky.
 

                                        Mary R.Crowther. 1970.

 

View from the Viaduct

 

When travelling over the Viaduct on a train you don't get enough time to take in the view from it, These Photographs were taken by maintenance workmen during a regular inspection of the track in 2001.

Castlesalts

 

David Dale Avenue

 

On Top - Looking South

 

St Columba's & The Glebe

 

The Annick

 

On Top - Looking North

 

Looking towards Kirkford

 

The Wash Hoose Road

 

Lainshaw Mill Brig

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Click here to read William Crichton's article on the Viaduct

 

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