Royal Border Bridge

Royal Border Bridge spans the River Tweed between Berwick-upon-Tweed and Tweedmouth in Northumberland, England at gbmapping|NT992532. It is a Grade I listed railway viaduct built between 1847 and 1850, when it was opened by Queen Victoria. The engineer who designed it was the famous Robert Stephenson (son of George Stephenson). It was built for the York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway and is still in regular use today, as part of the East Coast Main Line.

The bridge is 659 metres long. It has 28 arches, constructed of brick but aesthetically faced with stone. The bridge is 38 metres above the river itself. [cite journal|author=Bruce, George Barclay|title=Description of the Royal Border Bridge over the River Tweed, on the York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway|journal=Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers|volume=10|year=1851|pages=219–44] In the 1990s it underwent significant repair work for the first time, in a Railtrack project with some funding from English Heritage.

External links

* [http://www.sine.ncl.ac.uk/view_structure_information.asp?struct_id=1143 Information from the SINE project] , University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
* [http://www.cintec.com/en/applications/Archtec/documents/royal_border.htm Details on the repair project]
* [http://www.stboswells.bordernet.co.uk/walks-by-the-tweed/14.html Tweed bridges]
* [http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/berwick/berwickupontweed/ Guide to Berwick-upon-Tweed]

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