Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders
Date 2007
Event ID 589757
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/589757
Glenesk Bridge, Dalkeith consists of a single-span semicircular ashlar masonry arch over the North Esk with a span of 65 ft and an original width of 15 ft between parapets. It was designed by James Jardine and attractively embellished with archivolts, tapering pilasters and extensive curved wing walls with an elevation reminiscent of a superior bridge of the Highland Roads era.The bridge was tastefully conserved in 1993 for pedestrian and cycle use by the Edinburgh Green Belt Trust with a grant from the Railway Heritage Trust. Unsightly steel trussing to protect the arch against the effects of future coal mining was removed together with cantilevered footways probably added by Miller as part of the North British Railway upgrading in 1847.
R Paxton and J Shipway 2007
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders' with kind permission of Thomas Telford Publishers.
