Old Photograph Leaderfoot Scotland

Old photograph of cottages. houses and people in Leaderfoot village located two miles East of Melrose, Scottish Borders, Scotland. The first bridge over the River Tweed in the village, now long gone, would have carried the Roman road, Dere Street on its way from the nearby fort of Trimontium to the northern frontier of the Empire on the edge of the Scottish Highlands. Today, three bridges cross the river; the old Drygrange road bridge built in 1780, now closed to traffic, the grand nineteen arch Leaderfoot Viaduct built in 1865, that once carried a section of the Berwickshire Railway which closed in 1948 and a modern road bridge built in 1973, supporting the A68 trunk road.



Tour Scotland video of Leadefoot Viaduct two miles East of Melrose, Scottish Borders, Scotland. This Scottish viaduct which is no longer used by trains, was opened on November 16th, 1863 to carry the Berwickshire Railway, which connected Reston, on the East Coast Main Line between Berwick-upon-Tweed and Edinburgh, with St Boswells, on the Edinburgh to Carlisle "Waverley Line", via Duns and Greenlaw. The engineers of the railway were Charles Jopp and Wylie & Peddie.

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