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| Where is this impressive viaduct with brick piers & arches, & red sandstone spandrels? Clues in the photo are the old & modern A road bridges seen through the arches, & the the dished foreground was a Roman amphitheatre - final clue for cheats follows ..... |
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| This is nearby, but not on the same route |
Google for more impressive shots of this 19 arch grade A listed structure.
See forgottenrelics.co.uk if you are interested in such edifices.
2 comments:
This is Leaderfoot Viaduct on the former Berwickshire Railway line from St. Boswells on the Waverley Route to Reston on the East Coast Main Line. It carried the line over the River Tweed near where the line branched off the Waverley Route at Ravenswood Junction. The view looks east.
Well described, Kenneth. The line was breached (with others) in the 1947 floods, but I think that goods traffic on the two branches so formed lasted until the 1960s.
Incidentally, if the Borders Railway is to extend from Tweedbank to Hawick, it looks like there'll need to be work south of this viaduct to get past Melrose & Newtown St Boswells, and conflicting realignments of the A6091 & A68.
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