Detail of the navigation light beneath the Inchgarvie erection. Digital image of B 3430.

Description Detail of the navigation light beneath the Inchgarvie erection. Digital image of B 3430.

Date 9/9/1988

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number SC 728336

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of B 3430

Scope and Content Navigation light beneath Inchgarvie cantilever, Forth Bridge, Edinburgh and Fife The Forth Bridge was built between 1883 and 1890 to designs by engineers Sir John Fowler (1817-98) and Sir Benjamin Baker (1840-1907) with Sir William Arrol (1839-1913) and Joseph Phillips as contractors. This massive steel railway viaduct features three double cantilevers connected by girders with a total span of 2.5 km. This shows the navigation light, a kind of small lighthouse, on the island of Inchgarvie in the middle of the River Forth. The light is housed within a glazed drum on a metal tower, with guard rails around its parapet for maintenance. The steel tubes and bracings of the bridge can be seen behind the light. The central cantilever of the bridge rests on the rocks of Inchgarvie, a tiny uninhabited island. In its long history it has seen the building of a late medieval tower-house, a quarantine area, and a World War II coastal battery. Its position was a key factor in the building of the bridge at this traditional crossing point of the Forth. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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