Railway Viaduct

Today's the day ........................... to reflect

Those brick arches on the bank of the River Dee, are all that remain on that side of the river of the Tongland Railway Viaduct, once part of the branch line linking Kirkcudbright to Castle Douglas.  The viaduct carried the railway across the river at this point.     

The Kirkcudbright Railway, as it was known, opened in 1864, and closed in 1965 as one of the Beeching Cuts.  The 1895 public timetable shows that seven trains ran each way except Sundays.  The line was a little over 10 miles long and the journey time was 25 minutes.

How good would it be (as with many of the lost railways) if it was still in existence today ……………………..?