This 16 Arched Viaduct has been dissued since 1967. It is 666 feet long and 68 feet high. It carried the Bathgate and Armadale branch of the monkland railway line. It comprises twelve wide segmental arches (each 14.3 m / 47 feet), separated by slender piers, with pairs of narrow arches at each end. The river avon passes under the second of the wide arches, counted from the northern end, while there is a long (119m / 390 feet) approach embankment at the southeastern end of the viaduct.
The line closed on 28th December 1964 and the viaduct was B-listed in 1974. Parts of the structure are in poor condition and most of the arches have had to be strengthened with enormous tie-bars. The viaduct is dangerous to cross, with considerable lengths of the iron parapet railings having been lost. British Railways Board (Residuary) Ltd. was responsible for the maintenance until 2013, when the task passed to the English Highways Agency, based in York.
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