Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands
Date 2007
Event ID 929322
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/929322
Park Bridge, Durris
This bridge, now carrying a public road, was constructed in 1854 by the Deeside Railway Company to give access from the south to its railway along the north side of the Dee. It has two cast-iron segmental arches of 120 ft span, with a rise of only 14 ft, and is supported on granite masonry
abutments and a central river pier.
The arches were cast in four sections and support the arcade of cast-iron cruciform-section columns carrying the timber deck beams and floor, which have been renewed.
The bridge is an elegant structure whose profile has been slightly altered by the handrailing required for modern traffic usage. It was designed by John Willet and the ironwork was cast by J. Abernethy and Co.
R Paxton and J Shipway, 2007.
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands' with kind permission from Thomas Telford Publishers.
