Royal Border Bridge
The Royal Border Bridge is a 658 m long railway viaduct between Tweedmouth and Berwick-upon-Tweed . The railway crosses the mouth of the Tweed River into the North Sea . The East Coast Main Line runs over 28 arches at a height of 38 m over the bridge , which symbolically marks the transition from England to Scotland with the royal plazet . Today's border point is a few miles further north.
The bridge was designed and built under the direction of Robert Stephenson between 1847 and 1850 and officially opened in a twelve-minute ceremony by Queen Victoria .
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Coordinates: 55 ° 46 ′ 19.5 ″ N , 2 ° 0 ′ 48.6 ″ W.