Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders
Date 2007
Event ID 605332
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/605332
In 1897 a new twin-track bridge was completed immediately upstream with three arch main spans 60 ft 7 in. on the square, the river piers being in line with those of the existing bridge. Each span consists of six, two-pinned steel arch ribs 2 ft 8 in. deep. The longitudinal plate girders over the arched ribs are 14 in. deep. The river piers are of ashlar masonry with rubble hearting founded on two concrete-filled steel caissons 22 by 16 by 8 1/2ft deep.
The contractor was Michael Alexander. In 1923 the bridge was widened to take four tracks by P. & W. Anderson.
R Paxton and J Shipway 2007
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders' with kind permission of Thomas Telford Publishers.
