Linktown Railway Viaduct, Kirkcaldy is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 September 1979. Viaduct. 1 related planning application.

Linktown Railway Viaduct, Kirkcaldy

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
10 September 1979
Type
Viaduct
OS grid reference
NT 273 901
Coordinates
56.09842, -3.16925
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Linktown Railway Viaduct in Kirkcaldy was built by Bouch and Grainger between 1845 and 1847. It features nine arches, consisting of seven main segmental arches and smaller arches at each end. The viaduct has impost block bands and battered bull-faced ashlar piers, with narrow rock-faced ashlar spandrels. The arch rings and parapet are made of ashlar, and the soffits are also ashlar.

Local climate

Linktown Railway Viaduct, Kirkcaldy receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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