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View from W showing curved SSW front of railway bridge with hotel in background
SC 712766
Description View from W showing curved SSW front of railway bridge with hotel in background
Date 25/7/1969
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 712766
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Guardbridge Railway Bridge (Guard Bridge Viaduct), Fife This viaduct replaced one opened in 1852 by the St Andrews Railway, a 'cheap railway' promoted soon after the collapse of the Railway Mania had ended confidence in railway investment. The original viaduct was wooden, and was replaced by the North British Railway, probably in the 1880s. This shows the viaduct from the west. It has nine plate-girder spans supported on pairs of cylindrical piers linked by cast iron arched girders, and is on a pronounced curve. The original railway was designed by Thomas Bouch, later engineer for the first, ill-fated Tay Bridge. The wooden viaduct had a designed life of about 30 years, and the opportunity was probably taken, following the collapse of the Tay Bridge, to rebuild this one. The St Andrews branch was closed in 1969. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/69/48/12
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