Edinburgh, Warriston Road, Railway Bridge

Railway Bridge (19th Century)

Site Name Edinburgh, Warriston Road, Railway Bridge

Classification Railway Bridge (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Leith And Newhaven Railway; Water Of Leith, Warriston Junction

Canmore ID 153340

Site Number NT27NE 653

NGR NT 25265 75376

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/153340

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SC 2661261

General view of bridge from NE

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

6/9/2001

SC 2661481

Edinburgh, Warriston Road, Warriston Bridge. General view of pier from downstream.

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1971

SC 2661480

Edinburgh, Warriston Road, Warriston Bridge. General view from South-West.

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1971

SC 2661262

View of bridge from SW

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

6/9/2001

SC 2661260

General view of bridge from NE

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

6/9/2001

SC 2661482

Edinburgh, Warriston Road, Warriston Bridge. View of buttress and abutment bay on right bank upstream.

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1971

SC 2661484

Edinburgh, Warriston Road, Warriston Bridge. View of intrados of South arch.

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1971

SC 1647227

Edinburgh, Warriston Road, Bridge. General view.

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List C Survey

1975

SC 2661263

View of bridge from SW

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

6/9/2001

SC 2661479

Edinburgh, Warriston Road, Warriston Bridge. General view from North-East.

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1971

SC 2661483

Edinburgh, Warriston Road, Warriston Bridge. View of buttress and abutment bay on right bank downstream.

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1971

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Administrative Areas

Council Edinburgh, City Of
Parish Edinburgh (Edinburgh, City Of)
Former Region Lothian
Former District City Of Edinburgh
Former County Midlothian

Architecture Notes

Built by engineers Grainger and Miller (1841-3) for the Leith & Granton Railway, the bridge comprises three ashlar segmental skew arches which carried the railway over the Water of Leith and Warriston Road. The railway was closed in the 1960s.

Information from RCAHMS (MKO), 2001.

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