Origins of Scotland’s famous Forth Bridge. The plan to construct the Forth Bridge was brought up after a former project to construct a suspension railway bridge at the Firth of Forth, designed by Sir ...

The Forth Road Bridge opened in 1964 and is one of Scotland’s most famous landmarks: a suspension bridge with a 1,006m main ...

New bridge to be built over Forth Ministers said a cable stayed bridge was the quickest option. A new bridge is to be built across the Firth of Forth, just west of the existing suspension road ...

Though the bridge improved access to Skye, its tolls triggered a storm of controversy. Charges rose from just 40p to an ...

The Queen will officially open a new bridge over the Firth of Forth next month. She will be joined by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon at the ceremony on the Queensferry Crossing on 4 September. The ...

The Forth Bridge, which spans the estuary (Firth) of the River Forth in eastern Scotland to link Fife to Edinburgh by railway, was the world’s earliest great multispan cantilever bridge, and at 2,529 ...

The Forth Bridge was an engineering marvel when it opened, and it still carries up to 200 trains a day. Corbis/Hulton-Deutsch Collection 1890: The Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) taps a ...

Reporting from South Queensferry, Scotland — Crossing Scotland’s iconic Forth Rail Bridge takes just two minutes. Painting the Victorian-era wonder takes forever. Or so the story goes. Since ...

The Firth of Forth is a dour, great inlet where the tide rushes in and out from the North Sea at great velocity and where the sixth longest bridge in the world supplies “see-ers” with a ...

The Queen will officially open a new bridge over the Firth of Forth next month. She will be joined by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon at the ceremony on the Queensferry Crossing on 4 September. The ...