Constructed in 1849 to carry the Tweedmouth to Kelso ['Kelso Branch'] railway line over the River Till. The line was closed completely in 1965, with the track being lifted four years later.
"Says Tweed to Till— 'What gars ye rin sae still?' Says Till to Tweed— 'Though ye rin with speed And I rin slaw, For ae man that ye droon I droon twa.'"
Anonymous 17th-century Northumbrian rhyme, included by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch in his Oxford Book of English verse (1919)