Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders
Date 2007
Event ID 590546
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/590546
The Caledonian Railway’s main line into Edinburgh, terminating at the east end of Princes Street in 1848, was closed in the 1960s and redeveloped as the West Approach Road in 1972, which conserved some of the company’s other historic retaining walls and bridges, for example, the fine viaduct at Slateford with its 14 masonry arches of 30 ft span designed by Locke & Errington and completed in 1848 is still operational.
R Paxton and J Shipway 2007
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders' with kind permission of Thomas Telford Publishers.
