Bowed Truss Railway Bridge, Inverkeithing is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 August 2004. Bridge.

Bowed Truss Railway Bridge, Inverkeithing

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
4 August 2004
Type
Bridge
OS grid reference
NT 126 823
Coordinates
56.02639, -3.4028
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Bowed Truss Railway Bridge in Inverkeithing was constructed between 1883 and 1890, designed by Sir John Fowler and Sir Benjamin Baker, with engineering by Louis Neville for Tancred, Arrol and Co, and built by contractors Joseph Philips. This bridge features a mild steel and masonry bowed N-truss design with a skew plan. It has ashlar coped snecked bull-faced masonry abutments, with each span measuring approximately 37 metres in length and the overall width of the bridge being about 10 metres.

Local climate

Bowed Truss Railway Bridge, Inverkeithing receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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