Historic bridges · Scottish Highlands
Friarton Bridge
Friarton Bridge in Scotland Islands, United Kingdom.
Rob Burke — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence
Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 15 min–30 min
- Free entry
- Dog-friendly
About
Friarton Bridge is a place of interest in Scotland Islands, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
The Friarton Bridge is a steel box girder bridge with a concrete deck, across the River Tay on the southeastern outskirts of Perth, Scotland. It is located approximately 20 miles (32 km) upstream of the Tay Road Bridge. At the time of its construction it was the longest span steel girder bridge in the UK and the first to use a composite lightweight concrete deck.
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Background
Architecture
The bridge was constructed by the Cleveland Bridge & Engineering Company with Miller Group as the foundation and concrete sub-contractor, while it was designed by Freeman Fox & Partners, with the team being led by Dr Oleg Kerensky and the resident engineer H Binnie. The site manager for Cleveland was J Robinson and for Miller it was R Gormley. The bridge consists of a pair of steel box girders (one under each carriageway) 4.3 m wide overlaid by a lightweight concrete deck. The bridge is 831 m long, with a river span of 174 m. The river span provided a 25 m head room for a width of 46 m of the 76 m wide navigation channel. The boxes vary in depth between 2.7 and, with the deeper section…
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- Coordinates
- 56.3789, -3.4093
- District
- Perth and Kinross
- Postcode
- PH2 8DD
- Parliamentary constituency
- Perth and Kinross-shire
- Established
- 1978
- Opening
- {{start date and age|1978|p=yes}}
Sources
- wikidata: Q5503370 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Friarton Bridge (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Friarton Bridge?
- Friarton Bridge is in the Scottish Highlands, United Kingdom (postcode PH2 8DD).
- When was Friarton Bridge built?
- Built or established in 1978.
- Who owns Friarton Bridge?
- Friarton Bridge is owned by | maint =.
- Is Friarton Bridge free to visit?
- Yes, Friarton Bridge is free to enter.
- How do I get to Friarton Bridge?
- Drivers can navigate to postcode PH2 8DD. It sits within the Perth and Kinross-shire parliamentary constituency.