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Edinburgh, Forth Road Bridge. View from North West. Digital image of A 37390 CN.

SC 716137

Description Edinburgh, Forth Road Bridge. View from North West. Digital image of A 37390 CN.

Date c. 1964

Collection Eric de Mare: photographs

Catalogue Number SC 716137

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of A 37390 CN

Scope and Content Forth Road Bridge, South/North Queensferry, Edinburgh The Forth Road Bridge was commissioned in 1947 and designed 1947-58 by architects Sir Giles Gilbert Scott & Partners, with Mott, Hay & Anderson and Freeman Fox & Partners as consulting engineers. Construction began in 1958 and the bridge was officially opened by Her Majesty the Queen on 4 September 1964. This shows the bridge shortly after completion. The elegant curving cables over the tall steel towers carry the road on suspension rods. Close to the shore the bridge is further supported by concrete arches which carry the bridge and cables to its anchor points on either side. Very few vehicles can be seen on the bridge, in contrast to the heavy traffic which now use it daily to commute in and out of Edinburgh. The total span of the bridge is nearly 1.8km with a main span of 1km. The elegant steel towers with their cross-beams are each 150m high. Its impressive position close by the famous Forth Rail Bridge (completed in 1890) makes it a popular tourist attraction and symbol of Scottish engineering innovation. Over 60,000 vehicles use the bridge each day. This structure has been selected as one of Scotland's key 20th-century Modern architectural monuments. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap

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Collection Level (551 687) Eric de Maré: photographs

> Item Level (SC 716137) Edinburgh, Forth Road Bridge. View from North West. Digital image of A 37390 CN.

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