The Forth Bridge is a cantilever railway bridge across the Firth of Forth in the east of Scotland, 9 miles (14 kilometres) west of central Edinburgh. It is considered as a symbol of Scotland (having been voted Scotland's greatest man-made wonder in 2016), and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. . It is sometimes referred to as the Forth Rail Bridge (to distinguish it from the adjacent Forth Road Bridge), although 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 carries the Edinburgh–Aberdeen line across 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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Today we ventured to Queensferry, and had lunch at the Three Bridges. The oldest is the Forth Bridge, which I have blipped, which was built in the 19th century, then there is the Forth Road Bridge, built in the 21st century. And in the 21st century the Queensferry Crossing was completed, so a bridge for each century.
My extra is the three bridges together, but unless there is a blue sky, or you have a high position to photograph from, it is hard to distinguish the bridges separately.
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