Albert Street Railway Footbridge, Monifieth is a Grade B listed building in the Angus local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1989. Footbridge. 1 related planning application.

Albert Street Railway Footbridge, Monifieth

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Angus
Constituency
Arbroath and Broughty Ferry MP: Lara Bird (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 December 1989
Type
Footbridge
OS grid reference
NO 493 321
Coordinates
56.47872, -2.82377
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Albert Street Railway Footbridge in Monifieth was engineered for the Dundee and Arbroath Joint Railway in 1905. This footbridge is made of cast iron and steel, featuring a timber deck and concrete ramps. It has an irregular elliptical arch that is supported by two pairs of cast-iron Doric columns, with the arch's underside displaying quatrefoil tracery. The bridge is also equipped with a steel lattice parapet that includes oversailing loop braces.

Local climate

Albert Street Railway Footbridge, Monifieth receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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