Edinburgh Firth of Forth rail bridge (#0482)

Tour boat waiting to load near the bridge. One thing I have yet to figure out is how to take pictures when there is complex weaving in the structure, without them looking blurry. I don’t encounter this often enough to have spent time on doing it.

As I said in my first post about the bridge (the Forth Bridge), I find it to be a magnificent piece of engineering, even by modern standards, but exceptional when you consider that it opened in 1890. The bridge is described as cantilever and is 8,296ft long; a previous bridge at the location had collapsed because of strong winds through the area, thus a key issue in the design was wind resistance.

Each day almost 200 trains cross the bridge – in 2000 there were 54,080 passenger trains and 6,240 freight. See the ‘railway-technology’ link for more details.

Sources:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth_Bridge
www.railway-technology.com/projects/forth-rail-bridge-firth-scotland

(Part of a documentation of 2018 exploration/reflection on Brexit and populist movements in Europe, keyword Europe2018)