Leaderfoot Viaduct View from SW
SC 426209
Description Leaderfoot Viaduct View from SW
Date 8/4/1974
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 426209
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Leaderfoot Viaduct, near Newstead, Roxburghshire Built for the Berwickshire Railway, and designed by Charles Jopp and Wylie & Peddie, this viaduct has 19 spans, each of 13m. It is 37m from water level to the deck of the viaduct. This view is from the south west, and shows the unusually slender piers, and the brick and sandstone construction. Note the buttresses on two of the piers to the right. These were inserted when these piers showed signs of failure during construction. The Berwickshire Railway served the rich farming country of the Merse, but the district was sparsely populated, and the line was not reopened throughout when it was severed by floods in 1948. The two ends were used by goods traffic until the 1960s. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H74/41/11
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