Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders
Date 2007
Event ID 602927
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/602927
This bridge, linking King’s Drive and Ballater Street with four equal spans of about 70 ft, each of 11 parallel steelplate girders supporting a reinforced concrete deck slab 70 ft between parapets, was built from 1930–33. It is a good example of best practice in ca.1930. The engineer was T. P. M. Somers, City Engineer and the contractor Sir William Arrol & Co. The cost was £113 130.
R Paxton and J Shipway 2007
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders' with kind permission of Thomas Telford Publishers.
