Royal Border Bridge
Location type
BridgeName and dates
Royal Border Bridge (1850-)Opened on the Newcastle and Berwick Railway.
Description
This is a double track 28 arch viaduct which crosses the River Tweed between Berwick-Upon-Tweed and Tweedmouth. It is 2152 ft long.
The engineers were Robert Stephenson and T. E. Harrison. Construction began in 1847 and was completed in 1850, officially opened by Queen Victoria. On completion, the bridge linked the North British Railway, on the north bank, with the York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway. It completed a gap in the railway between the North British Railway on the north bank, which opened in 1846 from Edinburgh to Berwick, and the Newcastle and Berwick Railway opened in 1847, between Newcastle and Tweedmouth.
Network Rail - Royal Border Bridge
Tags
ViaductExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
| Nearby stations Berwick-upon-Tweed Tweedmouth Scremerston Velvet Hall Burnmouth Goswick Ayton Norham Eyemouth Beal Reston Chirnside Reston [1st] Twizell Etal | Berwick Roundhouse Shed Berwick-upon-Tweed Guardhouse Tweedmouth Power Box Tweedmouth Shed Mine Scremerston Colliery and Tile Works Scremerston Colliery Incline House Scremerston Colliery Restoration Pit Tourist/other Berwick Junction Signal Box Berwick Station Signal Box River Tweed Berwick Central Signal Box Tweed Dock Berwick North Signal Box Marshall Meadows Signal Box |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| / /1848 | Newcastle and Berwick Railway Extended from Tweedmouth over the Royal Border Bridge to Berwick by the York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway. |
| /12/2010 | Newcastle and Berwick Railway Floodlighting on the Royal Border Bridge damaged by flooding. |
