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

Russell Road Railway Bridge With Retaining Walls

WRENN ID
salt-shingle-mint
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
Bridge
OS grid reference
NT 234 727
Coordinates
55.94124, -3.22785
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Russell Road Railway Bridge, built in 1842 by the Caledonian Railway under Chief Engineer John Miller, is a three-arch viaduct featuring battered piers. It is constructed from coursed bull-nosed sandstone and includes a band course at the springing level. The arches are framed by a channelled ashlar arch ring, and there is an ashlar coped parapet above the band course. To the west, there is a high sloping retaining wing wall, while a low retaining wall to the east abuts the inner pier.

Local climate

Russell Road Railway Bridge With Retaining Walls 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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