Scotland Guide
Central Scotland
The Forth Rail Bridge
Address: North Queensferry
The cantilevered Forth Rail Bridge, built from 1883 to 1890 by Sir John Fowler and Benjamin Baker, is one of Scotland's largest man-made structures and ranks among the supreme achievements of Victorian engineering, with some 50,000 tons of steel used in the construction of a design that manages to express grace as well as might. The only way to cross the rail bridge is aboard a train heading to or from Edinburgh, though inevitably this doesn't allow much of a perspective of the spectacle itself. For the best panorama of it, make use of the pedestrian and cycle lane on the east side of the road bridge.