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Latitude: 55.9387 / 55°56'19"N
Longitude: -3.2294 / 3°13'45"W
OS Eastings: 323299
OS Northings: 672416
OS Grid: NT232724
Mapcode National: GBR 8FL.BN
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.CZDQ
Plus Code: 9C7RWQQC+F6
Entry Name: Railway Bridge, Gorgie Road, Edinburgh
Listing Name: Gorgie Road, (At Tynecastle Lane), Railway Bridge
Listing Date: 15 November 1995
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 363920
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB26997
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200363920
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Sighthill/Gorgie
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Railway bridge
Engineers' Office, Caldonian Railway Co. Donald Matheson, Chief Engineer, 1909. Iron girder bridge set at angle to road (NE/SW); brackets decorated with painted cast-iron enrichments and wrought-iron ribbons, wreaths, scolls and leaves. Supported on channelled ashlar base; upstanding pier at each corner with dentilled cornice and escutcheon panel. Coped downswept supporting walls, terminating in small corniced pier; single storey corniced pavilions at NW and SE (originally public toilets).
The decoration of this bridge is outstanding and unique in Scotland. Described in EDINBURGH as 'unexpected festivity with... swanky piers'. Compare with similar bridge at Roseburn Terrace. It also bears comparison with the bridges of Otto Wagner, particularly in the use of wreaths; see the unbuilt designs of 1905 for the Ferdinandsbrucke over the Danube Canal, but particularly the railway bridge over the Zeile at Gurtellinie of 1898, and Rossauerlande station of 1900.
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