Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders
Date 2007
Event ID 602834
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/602834
Cramond New Bridge was designed by Rennie just before his death, and had eight 50 ft span semicircular arches with six hollow spandrels. Robert Stevenson proposed an innovative under-spanned wrought-iron suspension bridge, with the superstructure resting on the chains, but this did not find favour with the Road Trustees who in 1820 proceeded with a traditional masonry bridge. Rennie’s bridge was demolished in 1963 and replaced by the present three-span concrete bridge as an approach road improvement to the Forth Road Bridge, then nearing completion.
R Paxton and J Shipway 2007
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders' with kind permission of Thomas Telford Publishers.
