Bridge No 95
Location type
BridgeNames and dates
Bridge No 95 (1849-1969)Bridge No 95 (2015-)
Opened on the Edinburgh and Hawick Railway (North British Railway).
Description
This single track three girder viaduct crosses the River Gala in the west of Galashiels. It is a reconstruction of 2015 of the original double track viaduct. Single track girders rest on the double track piers of the original bridge. At the western end the bridge crosses a mill lade and former footpath.
After closure in 1969 the bridge was converted into a footbridge, the footway on top of the girders, which were singled and placed centrally on the piers.
The line is single track between Bowland Junction, to the north, and the terminus at Tweedbank.
To the immediate east is the Plumtreehall Brae Footbridge. To the west is the bridge over Wheatlands Road - Bridge 95 and this bridge forming one viaduct - and the site of Kilnknowe Junction.
Tags
ViaductAliases
Plumtreehall Viaduct Wheatlands Viaduct
| Nearby stations Galashiels Galashiels [1st] Clovenfords Abbotsford Ferry [2nd] Abbotsford Ferry [1st] Bowland Tweedbank Angling Club Cottage Lindean Thornielee Melrose Stow Selkirk Newstead [Melrose] Earlston | Kilnknowe Junction Comelybank Mill Wheatlands Mill Galabank Mill Skin Works Siding Comelybank Works Paterson^s No 2 Siding Ladhope Tunnel Torwoodlee South Viaduct Paterson^s No 1 Siding Torwoodlee Tunnel Torwoodlee North Viaduct Tourist/other Buckholm Tower Galashiels North Signal Box Torwoodlee House |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
