Royal Border Bridge

Location type

Bridge

Name 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

Viaduct

External links

Canmore site record
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map




Chronology Dates

  /  /1848Newcastle and Berwick Railway
Extended from Tweedmouth over the Royal Border Bridge to Berwick by the York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway.
  /12/2010Newcastle and Berwick Railway
Floodlighting on the Royal Border Bridge damaged by flooding.

News items

14/06/2023Major repair work completed at Royal Border Bridge [Network Rail]
23/11/2022More repairs added for iconic Royal Border Bridge [Network Rail]
11/03/2022Councillor's call on Royal Border Bridge lighting [Northumberland Gazette]
25/02/2022Repairs on the Royal Border Bridge [Rail Engineer]
20/01/2022Major repairs to Royal Border Bridge throughout 2022 community invited to learn more [Network Rail]
29/01/202111 pictures charting changes on the railway between Alnmouth and Berwick as new book published [Berwick Advertiser]
12/03/2018Drones trialled for the inspection of large railway structures [Network Rail]

Books


A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: The North-east v. 4 (A regional history of the railways of Great Britain)

Newcastle (Rail Centres)

Newcastle To Alnmouth.: and the Amble Branch. (Eastern Main Lines.)