Railway Bridge, Chirnsidebridge is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 March 1997. Railway bridge.

Railway Bridge, Chirnsidebridge

WRENN ID
knotted-zinc-equinox
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Constituency
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
26 March 1997
Type
Railway bridge
OS grid reference
NT 850 563
Coordinates
55.80057, -2.24043
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Railway Bridge at Chirnsidebridge was opened in 1849 by the North British Railway, likely designed by engineer John Miller. It is located to the northwest of a paper mill. This structure features a five-span round-arched viaduct made of cream sandstone, with channelled dressings and bull-faced cream sandstone ashlar used for the piers, which are battered below the impost. The bridge has an ashlar coped parapet with stugged ashlar situated between the impost and the parapet, as well as a bullnosed string course located below the parapet.

Local climate

Railway Bridge, Chirnsidebridge receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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