Railway Viaduct, Bothwell Gardens, Dunfermline

The railway viaduct at Bothwell Gardens in Dunfermline was designed by Alexander Honeyman and William Gordon Dean and built between 1864 and 1865 for the North British Railway. It features 13 spans constructed from coursed rockfaced sandstone with sandstone ashlar dressings. The structure includes 12 segmental-headed spans, along with one replacement rivetted steel girder span located to the east. The girder span and the section over the eastern part of the roundabout roadway are skewed. On the south side of the east abutment, there are a pair of segmental-headed recesses, one of which nearly goes through the span. Impost bands run across the piers of each arch, and the soffits are stugged. Most of the rockfaced voussoirs are consistent, except for the two spans crossing the roundabout roadway, which feature stepped ashlar voussoirs with keystones. A band course is positioned above the arches, and the structure has a coped parapet. Notably, the east abutment has been partially rebuilt using engineering brick.