Balmoral, Girder Bridge. View from South East.
SC 361758
Description Balmoral, Girder Bridge. View from South East.
Date 1982
Catalogue Number SC 361758
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of A 57228
Scope and Content Balmoral Bridge, Crathie, Aberdeenshire Balmoral Bridge, perhaps the earliest plate-girder bridge in Scotland, was built in 1857 to a design by I K Brunel using rolled wrought-iron. The Royal Family who had commissioned it disliked its plainness and also its elasticity under passing traffic. The bridge consists of two girders of rolled wrought-iron components, joined by cross-beams supporting a wooden deck. The girders, which also form the parapets, rest on abutments of local granite. Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-59) built many innovative bridges in wrought iron, masonry and timber. He nicknamed the 'Commission on the Application of Iron to Railway Structures, the 'Commission for Stopping Further Improvement in Bridge Building'. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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