View looking ESE showing railway bridge with old bridge on right and hotel in background

Description View looking ESE showing railway bridge with old bridge on right and hotel in background

Date 25/7/1969

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 712772

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 view shows the railway over 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. On the right is the 15th/17th century road bridge over the Eden. 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 H35/69/48/18

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/712772

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap