Railway Bridge, Gorgie Road, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 November 1995. Railway bridge.

Railway Bridge, Gorgie Road, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
strange-trefoil-wagtail
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh South West MP: Dr Scott Arthur (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 November 1995
Type
Railway bridge
OS grid reference
NT 232 724
Coordinates
55.93865, -3.22945
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Railway Bridge on Gorgie Road in Edinburgh was designed by Donald Matheson, Chief Engineer of the Caledonian Railway Company, and completed in 1909. This iron girder bridge is set at an angle to the road, running from northeast to southwest. It features decorative brackets made of painted cast iron, adorned with wrought iron ribbons, wreaths, scrolls, and leaves. The bridge is supported by a channelled ashlar base, with an upstanding pier at each corner that has a dentilled cornice and an escutcheon panel. The supporting walls are downswept and coped, ending in small corniced piers. At the northwest and southeast ends of the bridge, there are single-storey corniced pavilions that were originally public toilets.

Local climate

Railway Bridge, Gorgie Road, Edinburgh sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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