Elgin Railway Bridge, Charlestown is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 March 1978. Bridge.
Elgin Railway Bridge, Charlestown
- WRENN ID
- south-newel-vermeil
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Dunfermline and Dollar MP: Graeme Downie (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 March 1978
- Type
- Bridge
- OS grid reference
- NT 062 836
- Coordinates
- 56.03693, -3.50681
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Elgin Railway Bridge in Charlestown was constructed around 1795. It features coursed sandstone rubble with roughly droved ashlar dressings and soffits. The bridge has three segmental arches, with metal tie plates over the central and southern end arches. There is a sloping buttress on the southern end, on the west side. The parapet is made of sandstone rubble with rough rubble coping. The road surface is cobbled. To the west, there is a steep drop, while the slope to the east is gentler. This bridge was built to carry the former Elgin Railway.
Local climate
Elgin Railway Bridge, Charlestown receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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