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Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands
Date 2007
Event ID 930920
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/930920
Waterloo Bridge, Inverness
A five equal-span double Warren truss iron road bridge supported on cast-iron columns dating from 1896. It connects Waterloo Place with Grant Street and had replaced a timber bridge with 13 spans of about 30 ft
erected in 1807–08 and known as Black Bridge [see illustration page 150]. The engineer of Waterloo Bridge was John A. Mackenzie, the consulting engineer was Murdoch Paterson and the contractors, Rose Street Foundry, Inverness.
The bridge stood firm in the severe floods of 1989 which reached nearly to deck level and caused the collapse of nearby Ness Viaduct.
R Paxton and J Shipway, 2007.
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands' with kind permission from Thomas Telford Publishers.
