Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders
Date 2007
Event ID 588998
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/588998
A steel wire cable suspension bridge erected over the Tweed near the Abbey in 1911 with a span of about 260 ft and steel-lattice tower supports. It was refurbished, including re-decking, in the early 1990s, having replaced
the wrought-iron chain-link suspension footbridge of similar span of 1818. It too had replaced a pioneering
bridge of the suspension and chain-rod stay type, August 1817, which had collapsed in a storm from chain failure at its rod ends (as shown). Both were designed, made and erected by J. & T. Smith of Darnick for the Earl of Buchan.
R Paxton and J Shipway 2007
Reproduced from Civil engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders' with kind permission from Thomas Telford Publishers.
