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Standing Building Recording
Date October 2011 - April 2012
Event ID 994093
Category Recording
Type Standing Building Recording
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/994093
NT 32372 67136 Glenesk Railway Bridge This bridge spans the River North Esk and the A7 trunkroad at Dalkeith. The bridge is reputed by some authorities (eg Hume 1976) to have been opened in 1849, having been constructed on behalf of the North British Railway Company in 1847 by the engineer John Millar (1805–1883) to replace an earlier timber bridge (Paxton 1993). Paxton (1993) claims that the stone structure below deck level is nearly two decades earlier and that no earlier timber bridge existed at this location. The elegant, late-Georgian styling of the bridge, which incorporates fine ashlar masonry, suggests to Paxton (1993) that it was designed by the engineer James Jardine (1776–1858), a close associate of Telford, and erected sometime between 1829–1831. If this is so, in terms of historical engineering, it should be considered the finest pre-Victorian railway bridge in Scotland (ibid). The viaduct has a single segmented arch with 64 voussoirs. It has extensive curved wing-walls, tapering pilasters and archivolts.
Archive: RCAHMS (intended). Report: East Lothian HER and RCAHMS
Funder: ERM Ltd on behalf of Transport Scotland
Graeme Carruthers, Mike Cressey, Magnus Kirby and Ian Suddaby, CFA Archaeology Ltd, 2013
(Source: DES)
