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Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands
Date 2007
Event ID 882096
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/882096
The second bridge crossing the River South Esk at this site (1828–1931) was a suspension bridge designed by Capt. Sir Samuel Brown RN that had a suspended span of 432 ft. The cast-iron deck beams, supporting the timber deck, were suspended from multibar, wrought-iron chains carried on masonry towers. This
bridge failed partially on two occasions: in 1830 when it was crowded with people watching a boat race, and in 1838 in hurricane force winds. J. M. Rendel reconditioned the bridge after the second failure and successfully inhibited deck oscillation by introducing substantial timber trussing longitudinally independent of the hangers, an early instance of such practice.
R Paxton and J Shipway 2007b
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands' with kind permission of Thomas Telford Publishers.
