A brief shaft of Crepuscular Rays over Gattonside in the Scottish Borders
Tags: Gattonside Scottish Borders Scotland Landscape Scottish Landscape Clouds Sunlight Geotagged Geo-Tagged Scotland Sony Sony a6300 Sony Zeiss 16-70 f4 mstphoto God Rays Melrose Crepuscular Rays
© All Rights Reserved
Leaderfoot Viaduct is a railway viaduct over the River Tweed near Melrose in the Scottish Borders.
The viaduct was opened on 16 November 1863 to carry the Berwickshire Railway, which connected Reston with St Boswells, via Duns and Greenlaw.
The railway was severely damaged by flooding during August 1948, with 7 bridges on the line failing, and the line closed to passenger traffic on 13 August 1948. Freight trains continued to run across the viaduct as far as Greenlaw until 19 July 1965.
In 1981, the poor condition of the viaduct meant that it was due to be demolished.
It was upgraded from Category B to A listing in 1986.
Historic Scotland took over control of the viaduct from British Rail in 1996.
Tags: Melrose Scottish Borders Viaduct Historic Scotland Panorama Pano Panoramic Leaderfoot Viaduct Geo-Tagged Geo-Tagged Scotland Sony Sony a6300 Sony Zeiss 16-70 f4 mstphoto Bridge
© All Rights Reserved
Tags: Moffat Dumfries & Galloway Scotland Landscape Scottish Landscape Hills Snow Rural Countryside Sony Sony a6300 a6300 Sony Zeiss 16-70 f4 Geotagged Geotagged Scotland mstphoto
© All Rights Reserved
Late afternoon sunshine on the River Tweed at Melrose
Tags: Melrose Scotland Scottish Borders Sony Sony a6300 Geotagged Geo-Tagged Scotland mstphoto River Tweed Scottish Rivers Scottish Landscape Sony Zeiss 16-70 f4
© All Rights Reserved
Melrose Abbey is a Cistercian abbey in the Borders region of Scotland, founded in 1136 and now in picturesque ruins. It is said to enshrine the heart of Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland (1306–29), who freed Scotland from English rule, winning the decisive Battle of Bannockburn (1314) and ultimately confirming Scottish independence in the Treaty of Northampton (1328).
Tags: Melrose Scotland Scottish Borders Sony Sony a6300 Geotagged Geo-Tagged Scotland mstphoto
© All Rights Reserved