Telford Bridge

Today's the day .................... for an old favourite

I know this bridge at Tongland has featured a few times as my blip - but maybe not for a while - and so here's how it looked today, just before the sun set in the sky.

It was built in the early 1800s to the design of Thomas Telford, the famous engineer - and is undoubtedly one of his best Scottish bridges, built as it is at a very difficult site, posing quite considerable engineering problems.  Not least among these is the fact that it has to cope with a difference in water level, between high and low tide on the River Dee, of sometimes 8 metres.  That's when those six pointed flood-relief arches (three on either side) come in handy to accommodate all that extra water. 

The extra is the view from the bridge, looking downstream towards Kirkcudbright and the setting sun ........................