Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands
Date 2007
Event ID 882100
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/882100
This multi-span 475 yards long railway bridge serving the East Coast Main Line was built in 1881–83 to a design by W. R. Galbraith as a replacement for a viaduct designed by Sir Thomas Bouch. Screw piles beneath the columns of the former viaduct failed during construction. Galbraith’s bridge carries a single rail track on a series of bowstring girders that are supported on concrete-filled piers. William Arrol & Co. were the contractors.
R Paxton and J Shipway 2007b
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands' with kind permission of Thomas Telford Publishers.
