Tour Scotland Video Leaderfoot Viaduct River Tweed Scottish Borders

Tour Scotland video of Leaderfoot Viaduct over the River Tweed on ancestry visit to the Scottish Borders, Scotland. This Scottish viaduct which is no longer used by trains, was opened on November 16th, 1863 to carry the Berwickshire Railway line, 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. The viaduct stands 126 feet from the floor of the river valley. The arches, each of 43 feet span, are of brickwork, and the abutments, piers and walls are of rustic faced red sandstone. Some later strengthening of the abutments and piers with old rails and buttresses on the southern valley side is very obvious. It is straight over its whole course, and runs in a broadly northerly direction.

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