Sites and Monument Record: King's Bridge (SMR 559)
Description
Railway viaduct, now demolished, situated on the Edinburgh-Glasgow line at Tamfourhill. It used to span the Union Canal locks, a mineral line railway, and the public road. It consisted of an arcade of 6 arches approached from an earth embankment at either end. The masonry was block-in-course with V-channelled quions, and the piers were intaken at the base with shallow tapering buttresses. A moulded cornice ran along the base of the parapet. The stonework was 384 ft long between the abutments, and 26 ft wide. The span of the arches, in order from E to W, was 130 ft, 20ft, 64ft, 20ft, 15ft 8ins, and 15ft 8ins. The E arch is the heighest at 44ft to the soffit, this being the span through which the canal passed.
It was replaced in 1961 by a new bridge built to the south of the old viaduct, requiring new embankments to be built. The new approach made use of the solum of the old branch line which ran next to the main line. (Martin, Don, 'E&G Railway Guidebook'.
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