Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders
Date 2007
Event ID 589109
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/589109
This bridge, with three spans of 55 ft over the Whitadder Water, was erected in 1837 to a state-of-the art design of James Jardine with iron tension-rod truss spans supported on 50 ft tall, elegant, stone piers. In 1878 the trusses and deck were replaced by the iron-lattice girders and deck (shown in the second illustration) made and erected by Oliver & Arrol. The engineers were D. & T. Stevenson. In 1985 this superstructure was in turn replaced by a steel beam and reinforced concrete slab deck under the direction of consulting engineers Babtie, Shaw & Morton.The original piers and abutments were retained. One 1878 iron bridge plaque was re-erected on site in 1985 and the other can be seen at the Institution of Civil Engineers Museum, Heriot-Watt University.
R Paxton and J Shipway 2007
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders' with kind permission from Thomas Telford Publishers.
