Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands
Date 2007
Event ID 929929
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/929929
Ballindalloch Bridge (Railway)
This triple-span bridge was built in 1863 to carry the singletrack Speyside Railway over the Spey. The main elements of the 195 ft long central span are a pair of 17 ft deep overall wrought-iron lattice girders, each constructed of doubled hexagonal plate latticed sections. The top booms of the girders are tied at intervals, and the short side spans are supported on plate girders. Alexander Gibb was the engineer, from whose line section book the figure is taken, and the contractor for the ironwork was G. McFarlane, Dundee.
The bridge is now conserved as part of the Speyside Way.
R Paxton and J Shipway, 2007.
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands' with kind permission from Thomas Telford Publishers.
