Diesel Passenger Train Crossing Iconic Forth Railway Bridge Firth Of Forth Scotland

Tour Scotland travel video of a diesel passenger train travelling South on the cantilever Forth Railway Bridge on visit to the Firth of Forth. The Forth Bridge is a cantilever railway bridge across the Firth of Forth in the east of Scotland, 9 miles West of central Edinburgh. It is considered as an iconic symbol of Scotland, having been voted Scotland's greatest man made wonder, and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It was designed by the English engineers Sir John Fowler and Sir Benjamin Baker. It is sometimes referred to as the Forth Rail Bridge, to distinguish it from the adjacent Forth Road Bridge, although this has never been its official name. Construction of the bridge began in 1882 and it was opened on 4 March 1890 by the Duke of Rothesay, the future King Edward VII. The bridge carries the Edinburgh to Aberdeen line across the Forth between the villages of South Queensferry in Lothian, and North Queensferry in Fife, and has a total length of 8,094 feet. When it opened it had the longest single cantilever bridge span in the world, until 1919 when the Quebec Bridge in Canada was completed. The bridge has been featured in television programmes and films, including Carry On Regardless, Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 film The 39 Steps, and its 1959 remake.The Forth Bridge is 33 miles from Perth, Perthshire 14 miles from Edinburgh and 47 miles from Glasgow.

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