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Bowshank, Farm Access Footbridge, Bridge No.76

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Footbridge (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Bowshank, Farm Access Footbridge, Bridge No.76

Classification Footbridge (Period Unassigned)

Alternative Name(s) The Waverley Line; Edinburgh To Hawick Branch Railway

Canmore ID 283846

Site Number NT44SE 28.05

NGR NT 45405 41117

NGR Description From NT 45422 41125 to NT 45380 41103

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/283846

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View. From SE looking from S entrance to tunnel mouth to farm access bridge.
View. From SE looking from S entrance to tunnel mouth to farm access bridge.View. From NW looking from inside tunnel to farm access footbridge. Land Rover from Soil Test team part of Waverley Line rebuilding Project.View. From SE from railway bridge over Gala Water looking to farm access footbridge and S entrance to tunnel.Vertical aerial view showing the course of The Waverley Line including Bowshank Tunnel and bridges.Oblique aerial view centred on S end of Bowshank Tunnel, foootbridge and bridge over the Gala Water, taken from the SSE.Oblique aerial view centred on S end of Bowshank Tunnel, foootbridge and bridge over the Gala Water, taken from the SE.Interior. From inside tunnel looking SE to farm access footbridge, from NW.Oblique aerial view centred on S end of Bowshank Tunnel, foootbridge and bridge over the Gala Water, taken from the SE.View. From SSE showing S entrance to tunnel and farm access footbridge.Oblique aerial view centred on S end of Bowshank Tunnel, foootbridge and bridge over the Gala Water, taken from the S.Detail. From N of farm access footbridge bridge pier shoing original painted bridge number.

Administrative Areas

  • Council Scottish Borders, The
  • Parish Stow
  • Former Region Borders
  • Former District Ettrick And Lauderdale
  • Former County Midlothian

Archaeology Notes

NT44SE 28.05 from 45422 41125 to 45380 41103

Footbridge providing access to Bowshank farm from the W built high over a deep railway cutting.

The bridge has tall brick piers and the decking is of wood. The structure has lost the hand rails.

The bridge is numbered No.76.

Due to be demolished when the railway is rebuilt.

Information from RCAHMS (DE), July 2006

Photographed in 2007 as part of a survey of Waverley Line remains in advance of proposed rebuilding of the railway and to enhance and augment the existing holdings of the National Monuments Record Scotland.

Information from RCAHMS (DE), April 2007

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