Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders
Date 2007
Event ID 578449
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/578449
A picturesque late-Victorian style suspension bridge with lattice towers and parapets erected over the Tweed in 1905. Its deck has a main span of 97 ft suspended from two 1 in. diameter twisted steel strand cables passing over lattice tower supports. It was designed by an engineer, R. J. M. Inglis, of ‘Tantah’, Peebles, and the contractor was Somervail of Dalmuir.
R Paxton and J Shipway 2007
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders' with kind permission from Thomas Telford Publishers.
