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All eight arches are semicircular, skewed and constructed with helical courses, crossing the Tweed obliquely with four of the piers in the water, and the whole structure is built on a graceful curve of radius 440 yards (400 m) so as to align the route with nearby Neidpath Tunnel, at the eastern end of the viaduct and to the south of Neidpath ...
The viaduct behind the amphitheatre at the Roman site of Trimontium. The viaduct stands 126 feet (38 m) from the floor of the river valley. [2] The arches, each of 43 feet (13 m) span, are of brickwork, and the abutments, piers and walls are of rustic-faced red sandstone.
"Tripontium" (‘three bridges’), with the new concrete road bridge in front of the Drygrange Old Bridge and the Leaderfoot Viaduct beyond. The Old Bridge has a central span of 105 feet (32 m), with two side spans of 55 feet (17 m), and a smaller arch in the south abutment. [1] [2] The central arch has a rise of 34 feet (10 m). [2]
Goyt Viaduct a.k.a. Strines Viaduct: Strines, Stockport: 1865: Stone arch and girder: II: Spans the River Goyt: Great Musgrave Bridge: Great Musgrave, Cumbria: 1862: Infilled with 1500 tons of concrete in July 2021 by National Highways [4] Gree Viaduct: North-East Ayrshire, Scotland: on the former Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway. Demolished ...
The effect of adding to the bridge can be seen from below. The five spans vary in length from 38 feet (12 m) to 42 feet (13 m). [1] The oldest part of the bridge uses arches which are almost circular, but the more modern parts use flatter segmental arches. [1]
The section of the old line between Broughton and Biggar (starting beyond the coal yard in Broughton) is used as a footpath. The section from Neidpath Viaduct to Lyne Station is also a public footpath. When the branch line closed in 1954, the Peebles (West) goods yard continued in use, served by the link line from the NBR line.
In 2005, a study by the New Economics Foundation ranked Peebles as the best town in Scotland (second best in the UK, after Hebden Bridge in Yorkshire) for a range of independent shops and 'home town identity'. [20] The local health facility is Hay Lodge Hospital in Neidpath Road. [21]
Google Maps' location tracking is regarded by some as a threat to users' privacy, with Dylan Tweney of VentureBeat writing in August 2014 that "Google is probably logging your location, step by step, via Google Maps", and linked users to Google's location history map, which "lets you see the path you've traced for any given day that your ...