Falls Of Cruachan Railway Viaduct is a Grade A listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 February 2007. Railway viaduct.
Falls Of Cruachan Railway Viaduct
- WRENN ID
- salt-bonework-myrtle
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Argyll and Bute
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 1 February 2007
- Type
- Railway viaduct
- OS grid reference
- NN 078 268
- Coordinates
- 56.39449, -5.11424
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Falls of Cruachan Railway Viaduct, designed by John Strain and completed in 1880, is a three-arch railway viaduct made partly of concrete. It features a castellated parapet and rectangular refuges that project outward on both sides of the central arch. The structure is supported by bull-faced stone piers with mass-concrete arches, which have incised voussoirs and soffits. The central arch is 41 feet high and spans 24 feet, while the flanking arches each have a span of 19 feet. A stringcourse runs along the base of the parapet, and the raised central crenellation displays a coat of arms along with the date of construction.
Local climate
Falls Of Cruachan Railway Viaduct sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 38 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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