Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders
Date 2007
Event ID 588979
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/588979
An impressively slender former railway viaduct of 19 arches crossing the Tweed at a height of 126 ft and
opened in 1865. Its arches, each of 43 ft span, are of brickwork and the abutments, piers and walls are of rusticfaced red sandstone. Some later strengthening of the abutment and pier at the south end is evident.
The viaduct used to carry the Berwickshire Railway branch line from the Edinburgh to Hawick ‘Waverley
Route’ to Duns and Reston. Its engineers were Charles Jopp and Wylie & Peddie. The line was severed in the 1948 floods and closed in 1965. The structure is in good condition having been extensively renovated by Historic Scotland in 1992–95. It is not generally open to the public, but is visited by arrangement for viewing the Roman fort site to the west.
R Paxton and J Shipway 2007
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering Scotland - Lowlands and Borders' with kind permission from Thomas Telford Publishers.
