Auchindrean Bridge
Road Bridge (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Auchindrean Bridge
Classification Road Bridge (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Auchindrean, Iron Bridge; River Broom; Inverbroom Estate
Canmore ID 81863
Site Number NH18SE 7
NGR NH 19538 80589
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/81863
- Council Highland
- Parish Lochbroom
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
NH18SE 7 19538 80589
Auchindrean Bridge [NAT]
OS 1:10,560 map, 1969.
Designed by Sir John Fowler, circa. 1870.
SDD 1960 -.
(Location cited as NH 194 806). Iron Bridge, Auchindrean, probably 1860's. A handsome lenticular-truss bridge of wrought-iron construction, with the wooden deck suspended from the truss by lattice girders. The abutments extend upwards to form semicircular corbelled piers, which support the ends of the trusses. Unique in Scotland.
J R Hume 1977
This bridge carries the approach track to Auchindrean steading (NH18SE 23) over the River Broom from the A835(T) public road (on the E side of the river).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 11 May 2006.
Publication Account (2007)
(Institute Civil Engineers Historic Engineering Works no. HEW 1556/03)
This elegant, simply supported, iron truss bridge of bowstring form, the only one of its kind in Scotland, was designed by or under the direction of Sir John Fowler and may have been influenced conceptually by I. K. Brunel’s Saltash Bridge. Fowler planned a bridge of similar design for the Metropolitan Railway at Farringdon Road, London, which was never built. Auchindrean Bridge has a span of 102 1/2 ft and a width of 9 ft. Its timber deck is suitable only for lightweight vehicular traffic. It spans the Broom on an estate road leading to Auchindrean Farm and existed before 1881. The masonry and steelwork contractors are unknown to the authors.
R Paxton and J Shipway, 2007.
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands' with kind permission from Thomas Telford Publishers.
