The Forth Bridge, across the Firth of…
March 1890 CE
A cantilever railway bridge nine miles (fourteen kilometers) 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's designers are the English engineers Sir John Fowler and Sir Benjamin Baker.
It is sometimes referred to as the Forth Rail Bridge (to distinguish it from the adjacent Forth Road Bridge), although this will never be its official name.
Construction of the bridge began in 1882 and it is opened 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 meters).
When it opens it has the longest single cantilever bridge span in the world, until 1919 when the Quebec Bridge in Canada will be completed.
It continues to be the world's second-longest single cantilever span, with a span of 1,709 feet (521 meters).
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