Railway Bridge, Ferry Road, Edinburgh

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 25/02/2000 Supplementary Information Updated 17/10/2001 Local Authority Edinburgh Planning Authority Edinburgh Burgh Edinburgh NGR NT 25101 76102 Coordinates 325101, 676102 — Grainger and Miller, circa 1840. Monumental bridge carrying Ferry Road over former Edinburgh, Granton and Leith railway line (now cycle track). Bull-faced coursed sandstone (smooth to parapet and inner arch of bridge), radially treated in spandrels. Depressed-arched opening to bridge, flanked by battered pilasters, their entablatures continued as parapets above. — Grainger and Miller's plan shows the railway coming from Waverley (via the Scotland Street Tunnel), passing under the back gardens of Nos 3-9 York Road (then known as Tower Park Cottage, Trinity Villa and Myrtle Bank), under Lennox Row and continuing directly to the Chain Pier, which was to be made into a harbour with dry dock, wet dock and break-water. In fact, after passing through the tunnel and under Lennox Row, the railway as built (for the Perth and Dundee Railway Company) curved round to Granton harbour, and the extensions to the Chain Pier were not built. An associated plan drawn up by George Angus shows the already existing houses in the path of, and immediately bordering the path of the proposed railway (including Grecian Cottage and Seaforth Cottage in Lennox Row and the three Gothic Cottages in Russell Place), and is annotated with 'deteriorations' in value to these houses. A plan of 1845 by Thomas Grainger shows a planned 'extension' running from the line of the railway to the Chain Pier. Up-graded C(S) to B 17/10/01.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.