Forth Railway Bridge General View
SC 556551
Description Forth Railway Bridge General View
Date 1979
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 556551
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Forth Bridge from Queensferry, West Lothian This bridge was built to link the railway network south of the Forth to that in Fife, and via the Tay Bridge, to Dundee and Aberdeen. Its construction was accompanied by that of link lines on either side of the Forth, and from Kinross to Bridge of Earn. This view shows most of the bridge from the south west. The three cantilevers are the most dramatic part of the structure, but there is a long approach viaduct on the south side, to the right in this view. This bridge was designed by Sir John Fowler and Benjamin Baker, and was built instead of one designed by Thomas Bouch, discredited when his Tay Bridge was partly blown down in 1879. The new, very stable, bridge was built in steel. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H79/194/9
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