Balbirnie Railway Viaduct is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 November 1972. Viaduct.

Balbirnie Railway Viaduct

WRENN ID
stony-rood-vale
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Glenrothes and Mid Fife MP: Richard Baker (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
24 November 1972
Type
Viaduct
OS grid reference
NO 290 011
Coordinates
56.19801, -3.14579
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Balbirnie Railway Viaduct, built in 1860, is a ten-arch railway viaduct. It features bull-faced rubble piers and ashlar coped buttresses beneath large square blocks, with the piers tapering toward the springing point. The semicircular arches lead up to a flat coped parapet. There are cast iron ties under each arch.

Local climate

Balbirnie Railway Viaduct receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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