Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders
Date 2007
Event ID 605566
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/605566
Completed in 1891, this bridge carries one of Glasgow’s busiest commuter routes over the Kelvin. Almost at the end of the cast-iron arch bridge era, it has four graceful cast-iron Gothic style segmental arch spans, the two centre ones being 91 ft with a rise of 18 ft 3 in. The deck is carried on steel cross girders with brick jack arches.
The western abutment overlies old coal workings at shallow depths and is carried on a steel frame resting on
cast-iron columns which penetrate the workings to a secure foundation below. The engineers were Bell &
Miller and the contractor, Sir William Arrol & Co.
R Paxton and J Shipway 2007
Reporduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders' with kind permission of Thomas Telford Publishers.
