Early Summer Drive M90 Motorway Forth Railway Bridge North Queensferry To Perth Perthshire Scotland

Tour Scotland early Summer travel video of a road trip drive, with Scottish music, North on the M90 Motorway from ancestry history visit to the Forth Railway Bridge by the town pier in North Queensferry by the Firth of Forth in Fife, all the way to Bridgend in Perth, Perthshire. Designed and built by John Rennie, the eminent Scottish engineer, the Town Pier served the Queensferry Passage, for centuries the busiest ferry route in Scotland. This crossing developed into an important pilgrimage route between Edinburgh and the holy sites of Dunfermline and St Andrews. The name Queensferry originates from the legacy of Queen Margaret, who crossed the river here in the 11th century. In 1828 Thomas Telford was commissioned to extend the pier to allow steamboats to land. This was completed in 1834. The opening of the railway from Dunfermline saw the transfer of some ferry traffic to the new Railway Pier, where passengers left the train before sailing to Port Edgar. Despite the coming of the railway and the opening of the Forth Railway Bridge in 1890, it was not until 1964 when the Forth Road Bridge opened that the Queensferry Passage Ferry finally stopped running. The pier is no longer used. The M90 is a motorway in Scotland. It runs from junction 1a of the M9, at the south end of the Forth Road Bridge, to Perth, passing Dunfermline and Kinross on the way. It is the most northerly motorway in the United Kingdom. The M90's most substantial engineering feature is the Friarton Bridge which spans the River Tay by Perth.

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