FORTH (ROAD) BRIDGE
From the Forth Road Bridge (bridge for road traffic) you have a spectacular view of the Forth Bridge (railway bridge).
Descibed as Scotland’s Eiffel Tower, the breathtaking Forth Railway Bridge stands at Queensferry Narrows, 15 kms west of Edinburgh, where it carries trains for 2½ kms over the Firth of Forth. The cantilever structure, with three 100 metres high towers, holding the double railway 45 metres above the estuary at high tide, was designed by Sir John Fowler and Benjamin Baker, and constructed by William Arrol. After seven years work, 55,000 tons of steel, almost 60,000 cubic metres of granite and 57 lives lost, the last of 8 million rivets was driven home at the opening ceremony on 4th March 1890.