Giant Meccano

Such a beautiful Autumn day today, so KryptoMart and I had a leisurely morning watching an old 1942 black and white film called 'The Talk of the Town' starring Cary Grant, Roland Coleman and Jean Arthur, which was most entertaining, before heading off for a Sunday drive round west Fife.

Here is a blip taken from underneath the Forth Rail Bridge at North Queensferry. The bridge was begun in 1883, took 7 years to complete, cost the lives of 98 men and needed nearly 58,000 tonnes (128,000,000 lb) of metal and used 10 times as much metal as the Eiffel Tower.

It was deliberately chosen to look strong, due to the collapse 4 years earlier of the first Tay Bridge. Until 1917, when the Quebec Bridge was completed, the Forth Bridge had the longest single cantilever bridge span in the world. It still has the world's second-longest single span.

Hope everyone has had a super Sunday.