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Shankend Viaduct is a former railway viaduct in the
Scottish Borders The Scottish Borders ( sco, the Mairches, 'the Marches'; gd, Crìochan na h-Alba) is one of 32 council areas of Scotland. It borders the City of Edinburgh, Dumfries and Galloway, East Lothian, Midlothian, South Lanarkshire, West Lothi ...
just over six miles south of the town of
Hawick Hawick ( ; sco, Haaick; gd, Hamhaig) is a town in the Scottish Borders council area and historic county of Roxburghshire in the east Southern Uplands of Scotland. It is south-west of Jedburgh and south-south-east of Selkirk. It is one of ...
. It is a
category B listed building In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...
. It carried the Edinburgh-Carlisle main line of the
North British Railway The North British Railway was a British railway company, based in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was established in 1844, with the intention of linking with English railways at Berwick. The line opened in 1846, and from the outset the company followe ...
, the Waverley Line, on 15 stone arches across the shallow Langside valley and the Langside burn. It has a maximum height of and has been extensively repaired with brick patching. The viaduct was the last section of the Waverley Line and was opened to goods traffic on 28 June 1862 and passenger traffic on 1 July 1862. The contract for the construction of the viaduct was awarded together with the nearby southern Whitrope Tunnel on the same line. With the closure of the entire route on 6 January 1969, the viaduct became obsolete and the rails have since been removed. In the 2000s, the monument was extensively restored by BRB (Residuary) Limited. After the successful re-opening of some of the former Waverley Line between Edinburgh and , there have been calls and feasibility studies into whether the entire route south to should be re-opened. If this came to fruition, Shankend Viaduct would see trains again.


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List of railway bridges and viaducts in the United Kingdom This is a list of viaducts and significant bridges of the United Kingdom's railways, past and present. See also *List of bridges in the United Kingdom *List of canal aqueducts in the United Kingdom *List of lattice girder bridges in the Uni ...


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{{reflist *Article incorporates material from the equivalent site on German Wikipedia Railway bridges in Scotland Category B listed buildings in the Scottish Borders Listed bridges in Scotland Bridges in the Scottish Borders