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Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders
Date 2007
Event ID 590004
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/590004
This bridge, recently removed, was half a mile downstream from NT36SW and was of trussed girder construction spanning 54 ft between sandstone masonry abutments. Its width was 6 ft with a timber deck carried on three slightly arched T-section ribs carrying a timber deck. The rib ends were connected by iron tie-rods 112 in. in diameter with three small strut spacers supporting the T-sections. A curious feature was the sockets for the handrailing cast integral with the T-section beams top flange. This bridge probably resulted from John Neil’s estimate to ‘furnish and fit up’ for £128 including scaffolding. Wm. Paterson offered to do the abutment mason work for £42 6s 612d. This design, presumably by Robert Stevenson, was a small scale development of his underspanned tension rod suspension bridge proposed for Cramond in 1820.
R Paxton and J Shipway 2007
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders' with kind permission of Thomas Telford Publishers.
