Shin Railway Viaduct is a Grade A listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 March 1971. Bridge.
Shin Railway Viaduct
- WRENN ID
- scarred-iron-poplar
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1971
- Type
- Bridge
- OS grid reference
- NH 578 952
- Coordinates
- 57.92409, -4.40098
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Shin Railway Viaduct, built in 1867 by Joseph Mitchell and Murdoch Paterson, is an iron-truss bridge featuring two tall semicircular arched approach spans at the south and three at the north. These spans are connected by a wide cast-iron lattice girder bridge composed of ten sections. The structure is made of coursed rubble with tooled rubble dressings and arched rings, and it has tooled rubble coped approach parapets. There is some later repair rendering on the arched rings on the north side.
Local climate
Shin Railway Viaduct sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,150 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 72 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 55 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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