Hotels near Forth Bridge
The 2.5 km. Forth Railway Bridge, the world’s first major steel bridge, with its gigantic girder spans of 521 m. ranks as one of the great feats of civilization. It was begun in 1883 and formally completed on 4 March 1890 when HRH Edward Prince of Wales tapped into place a ‘golden’ rivet.
Tancred–Arrol, constructed the bridge, robustly designed in the aftermath of the Tay Bridge disaster by civil engineers Sir John Fowler and Benjamin Baker. The balanced cantilever principle was adopted. The main crossing comprises tubular struts and lattice-girder ties in three double-cantilevers each connected by 105 m. ‘suspended’ girder spans resting on the cantilever ends and secured by man-sized pins. The outside double-cantilever shoreward ends carry weights of about 1000 tonnes to counter-balance half the weight of the suspended span and live load.
The Forth Road Bridge when opened, on 4 September 1964 by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, was the largest suspension bridge in Europe, and, together with the approach viaducts is over 2½ km. long.
The bridge has a spectacular central span of over 1 km. between its two main towers. The side spans, which carry the deck to the side towers, are each 408 m. long and are flanked by approach viaducts.
At the side towers the supporting cables turn down towards the anchorages which are, essentially massive wedges built by tunneling into the rock. The cables are 610 mm. in diameter and were spun on site using 11618 parallel high tensile steel wires 5 mm. in diameter.
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Location: South Queensferry
Distance: 0.76 miles
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Location: South Queensferry
Distance: 0.77 miles
Rating: 4*
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Distance: 0.87 miles
Rating: 3*
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Distance: 2.31 miles
Rating: 2*
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Distance: 4.15 miles
Rating: 3*
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Distance: 4.26 miles
Rating: 3*
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Distance: 4.29 miles
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Distance: 4.31 miles
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