New Year's Day Sunrise Forth Railway Bridge On Visit To Firth Of Forth Scotland

Tour Scotland 4K Winter travel video, with Scottish music, of New Year's Day sunrise at the Forth Railway Bridge over the Firth of Forth on visit to North Queensferry, Fife. This famous Scottish bridge, which spans the Firth of Forth, connects Scotland's capital city, Edinburgh, with Fife, leaving the Lothians at Dalmeny and arriving in Fife at North Queensferry. The Forth Bridge was opened on 4 March 1890, by the then Duke of Rothesay, later to become King Edward VII. North Queensferry railway station opened the same year. North Queensferry, Scottish Gaelic, Taobh a Tuath Chas Chaolais, meaning the Northern Side of the Steep Strait, is a village on the Firth of Forth. The village takes its name from Saint Margaret of Scotland, the wife of King Malcolm III of Scotland, who is said to have established the village to ensure there would be regular ferry crossings across the Firth of Forth for the benefit of pilgrims travelling to St Andrews. Margaret is said to have made her arrival in Scotland here in 1068, and to have regularly used the ferry crossing when travelling between the then capital Dunfermline, and Edinburgh Castle. From around this time, the crossing became known as the Queen's Ferry. The railway station was not in service by the time of the opening of the Forth Bridge in March 1890, it was in use soon after. The station replaced the station at North Queensferry Pier, which had been opened in 1874 to take passengers to and from the ferry across the Forth. North Queensferry's biggest attractions are the extensive views it offers of the Forth Bridge and Forth Road Bridge. The distance from Perth, Perthshire to North Queensferry is 32.5 miles by road. The Forth Bridge is a cantilever railway bridge across the Firth of Forth in the east of Scotland, 9 miles west of Edinburgh City Centre. It is considered an iconic structure and a symbol of Scotland, having been voted Scotland's greatest man made wonder, and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Firth of Forth is the estuary or firth of Scotland's River Forth, where it flows into the North Sea, between Fife to the north and Lothian to the south. It was known as Bodotria in Roman times. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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