Forth Rail Bridge

For the nearby road bridge, see Forth Road Bridge.
The Forth Rail Bridge is more correctly called the Forth Bridge, but the title is to distinguish it from the nearby Forth Road Bridge). It is a railway bridge across the Firth of Forth (part of the River Forth) in Scotland.

The bridge is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.UNESCO,  "Sites in Norway, Germany, Israel, UK and USA inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List"; retrieved 2018-6-20.

History
Built in 1890, it is a cantilever bridge design, with three major sections, each about  long, connecting to each other. The bridge is  long, and is  above the water. It carries about 190-200 trains every day.

More than 55,000 tons of steel were used, as well as 18,122 m³ of granite and over eight million rivets. The bridge has a speed limit of 50 mph (80 km/h) for passenger trains and 20 mph (32 km/h) for freight trains. The weight limit for any train on the bridge is 1,422 tonnes (1,442,000 kg). Approximately 4,600 workers were employed in construction of the bridge.

 Related pages 
List of World Heritage Sites of the United Kingdom

References

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Category:Bridges in Scotland
Category:Steel bridges
Category:Cantilever bridges
Category:1890 establishments in the United Kingdom
Category:1890s establishments in Scotland
Category:World Heritage Sites in the United Kingdom