Forth Bridge, Edinburgh, Scotland
Anon. (ca. 1900) Forth Bridge, Edinburgh, Scotland. [Image]
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Abstract
The Forth Bridge[2] is a cantilever railway bridge across the Firth of Forth in the east of Scotland, 9 miles (14 kilometres) west of Edinburgh City Centre. It is considered an iconic structure and a symbol of Scotland (having been voted Scotland's greatest man-made wonder in 2016), and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It was designed by the English engineers Sir John Fowler and Sir Benjamin Baker. It is sometimes referred to as the Forth Rail Bridge to distinguish it from the Forth Road Bridge, though this has never been its official name.
Construction of the bridge began in 1882 and it was opened on 4 March 1890 by the Duke of Rothesay, the future Edward VII. The bridge spans the Forth between the villages of South Queensferry and North Queensferry and has a total length of 8,094 feet (2,467 m). When it opened it had the longest single cantilever bridge span in the world, until 1919 when the Quebec Bridge in Canada was completed. It continues to be the world's second-longest single cantilever span, with a span of 1,709 feet (521 m).
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Item Type: | Image | ||||||
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Source Media: | Glass plate | ||||||
Collection: | QUT Alumni Donations | ||||||
Sub-Collection Title: | Robert Augustus Henry L'Estrange - Copies - Scotland |
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Date: | ca. 1900 | ||||||
Keywords: | Cantilever bridge; Railway Bridge; Forth (Scotland) | ||||||
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Date Deposited: | 23 Aug 2017 04:03 | ||||||
Last Modified: | 16 Feb 2018 04:08 | ||||||
Copyright Owner: | Out of copyright | ||||||
Copyright Statement: | You are free to use this image without permission. Please attribute Queensland University of Technology | ||||||
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URI: | https://digitalcollections.qut.edu.au/id/eprint/4143 | ||||||
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