Archaeology Notes

Event ID 788885

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/788885

NT33NW 69 34053 36626

Foot Bridge [NAT]

OS 1:2500 map, 1966.

EXTERNAL REFERENCE

Railway bridge over River Tweed at Innerleithen.

Plans, unsigned, at Darley Hay Partnership, Ayr.

(Undated) information in NMRS.

(Location cited as NT 341 367). Railway viaduct, Haughead, opened 1866 by the North British Railway. 6-span viaduct on a skew with slightly bowed girders on masonry piers.

J R Hume 1976.

This viaduct formerly carried the Galashiels-Peebles branch of the former North British Rly over the River Tweed to the SE of Innerleithen (NT33NW 62) and to the W of Haugh-Head steading (NT33NW 129). The river here forms the boundary between the parishes of Innerleithen (to the N) and Traquair (to the S).

The location cited defines the centre of the span.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 25 January 2005.