Braid Burn Bridge, Duddingston Road West, Edinburgh And Dalkeith Railway is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 May 1975. Bridge.

Braid Burn Bridge, Duddingston Road West, Edinburgh And Dalkeith Railway

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
8 May 1975
Type
Bridge
OS grid reference
NT 286 720
Coordinates
55.93648, -3.14425
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Braid Burn Bridge, built by Shotts Iron Company in March 1831, is a cast-iron girder skew bridge with an 18-foot span. It features pink sandstone rubble boundary walls and cast-iron beams that are curved in elevation and shaped like an L and an inverted T in cross section. The T-section beams have uniform sized flanges, and there are hardwood sleepers placed between the beams, along with replacement decking.

Local climate

Braid Burn Bridge, Duddingston Road West, Edinburgh And Dalkeith Railway receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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