Friarton Bridge | |
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 Friarton Bridge main span, looking southwest from Kinnoull Hill | |
| Coordinates | 56°22′44.2″N 3°24′33.6″W / 56.378944°N 3.409333°W |
| Carries | M90 |
| Crosses | River Tay |
| Locale | Perth, Scotland |
| Characteristics | |
| Design | Segmental |
| Total length | 831 m (2,726 ft) |
| Longest span | 174 m (571 ft) |
| History | |
| Opened | 1978 |
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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.[1]
- ^ Structural engineering in Scotland: a review of developments 1931-1981: prepared for the Golden Jubilee Symposium of the Scottish Branch of the Institution of Structural Engineers. London: Pentech Press. 1981. p. 131. ISBN 978-0-7273-1902-9.