The Scott Russell Aqueduct is an aqueduct carrying the Union Canal over the Edinburgh City Bypass, west of Edinburgh, Scotland.

The aqueduct was opened in May 1986 to carry the canal over the new Edinburgh City Bypass.

[4] It was named after the Scottish naval engineer John Scott Russell in a ceremony on 12 July 1995, who had discovered the soliton or solitary wave near Bridge 11 on the Union Canal in 1834.

[5][6] Russell had observed a bow wave continue to travel forward at a speed of 8 or 9 miles per hour (13 or 14 km/h) when a boat stopped moving, and called it the "wave of translation.

"[5] The aqueduct is the width of a single canal boat, and crosses the Bypass at a slight angle.