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Autumn Colours at Leaderfoot Viaduct located a few miles east of Melrose
Leaderfoot Viaduct carried the Berwickshire Railway over the River Tweed in the Scottish Borders. The viaduct was opened on 16 November 1863 to connected Reston (on the East Coast Main Line between Berwick-upon-Tweed and Edinburgh) with St Boswells (on the Edinburgh to Carlisle "Waverley Line"), via Duns and Greenlaw.
It stands 116 feet (35 m) from the floor of the river valley. The arches, each of 43 feet (13 m) span, are of brickwork, and the abutments, piers and walls are of rustic-faced red sandstone. Some later strengthening of the abutments and piers with old rails and buttresses on the southern valley side is very obvious. The railway was severed by flooding during August 1948, after which passenger trains never ran west of Duns. Freight trains continued to run across the viaduct as far as Greenlaw until 19 July 1965.
Autumn Colours at Leaderfoot Viaduct located a few miles east of Melrose
Leaderfoot Viaduct carried the Berwickshire Railway over the River Tweed in the Scottish Borders. The viaduct was opened on 16 November 1863 to connected Reston (on the East Coast Main Line between Berwick-upon-Tweed and Edinburgh) with St Boswells (on the Edinburgh to Carlisle "Waverley Line"), via Duns and Greenlaw.
It stands 116 feet (35 m) from the floor of the river valley. The arches, each of 43 feet (13 m) span, are of brickwork, and the abutments, piers and walls are of rustic-faced red sandstone. Some later strengthening of the abutments and piers with old rails and buttresses on the southern valley side is very obvious. The railway was severed by flooding during August 1948, after which passenger trains never ran west of Duns. Freight trains continued to run across the viaduct as far as Greenlaw until 19 July 1965.