Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders
Date 2007
Event ID 606462
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/606462
This bridge crossing the [River] Garry opposite the west entrance to the Duke of Atholl’s estate at Blair Atholl has a span of 160 ft and is raised well above the river level by a flight of steps at each end. It has an unstiffened timber deck 334 ft wide with wire mesh between suspenders in place of handrails. The suspender rods are of 12 in. diameter steel, clamped to the cables at about 2 ft intervals. The cables are 112 in. diameter wire ropes connected by U-bars to short lengths of 114 in. diameter chain at ground anchorages.
The bridge, probably dating from the early-20th century, was refurbished in 1991 by the 71st Scottish Engineer
Regiment (V), who renewed the deck and wire-mesh barriers with materials supplied by the Duke of Atholl.
R Paxton and J Shipway
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders' with kind permission of Thomas Telford Publishers.
