Archaeology Notes

Event ID 722003

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT73SW 63 70200 30413

See also NT63SE 23 and NT63SE 40.

For Bridgend Cottages (also known as Railway Cottage and adjacent to ESE), see NT73SW 96.

FB [NAT]

Roxburgh Viaduct [NAT]

OS 1:10,000 map, 1993.

(Location cited as NT 702 304). Roxburgh Viaduct, opened 1850 by the North British Rly. A very fine curved viaduct. There are 6 main segemental arch spans of ashlar construction, flanked on each side by 4 shorter coursed-rubble semi-circular arches. The 3 river piers of the largerspans on the downstream side are extended at a low level to carry a footbridge, with wrought-iron lenticular trusses with cast-iron compression members and a wooden deck.

J R Hume 1976.

Roxburgh Viaduct, 1847, John Miller; this crosses the Teviot just upstream of the old ferry station and Wallace's Tower (NT73SW 31). The curved plan of the viaduct would be impressive enough; the wrought-iron lenticular truss footbridge incorporated into the design at bank level makes this structure more exciting and sophisticated than any provincial railway line has any right to expect. Unfortunately, the railway closed in 1964, and the approich bridge (NT63SE 40) which linked the station (NT63SE 23: now a house) to the viaduct has been demolished.

C A Strang 1994.

This viaduct formerly carried the St Boswells - Sprouston Junction line of the North British Rly over the River Teviot to the E of Roxburgh Station (NT63SE 23). It closed to regular passenger traffic (with the St Boswells - Sprouston Junction - Tweedmouth line) on 15 June 1964.

The location assigned to this record defines the centre of the span. The available map evidence indicates that it extended from NT c. 70105 30401 to NT c. 70304 30429.

Information from RCHAMS (RJCM), 31 January 2006.

G Daniels and L Dench 1980.