Edinburgh - The Forth Bridge - Tartan border - Philco series postcard c.1910

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  The Forth Bridge, Edinburgh - tartan border 'Fraser'
• Publisher:  Philco series, printed in Germany
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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The Forth Bridge is a cantilever railway bridge over the Firth of Forth in the east of Scotland, to the east of the Forth Road Bridge, and 14 kilometres (9 mi) west of central Edinburgh. It was opened on 4 March 1890, and spans a total length of 2,528.7 metres (8,296 ft). It is often called the Forth Rail Bridge or Forth Railway Bridge to distinguish it from the Forth Road Bridge, although it has been called the ""Forth Bridge"" since its construction, and was for over seventy years the sole claimant to this name.

The bridge connects Scotland's capital city, Edinburgh, with Fife, leaving the Lothians at Dalmeny and arriving in Fife at North Queensferry; it acts as a major artery connecting the north-east and south-east of the country. Described by the Collins Encyclopaedia of Scotland as ""the one immediately and internationally recognised Scottish landmark"",^[1] it is a Category A listed building^[2][3] and was nominated by the British government in May 2011 for addition to the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Scotland.^[4]

Until 1917, when the Quebec Bridge was completed, the Forth Bridge had the longest single cantilever bridge span in the world. It still has the world's second-longest single span.^[5][6] The bridge and its associated railway infrastructure is owned by Network Rail Infrastructure Limited.

Construction of an earlier bridge, a suspension bridge designed by Sir Thomas Bouch, got as far as the laying of the foundation stone, but was stopped after the collapse of another of his works, the Tay Bridge. The public inquiry into the Tay bridge disaster declared the Tay Bridge ""poorly designed, poorly constructed and poorly maintained"".^[7] Bouch was disgraced, and the project was subsequently taken over by Sir John Fowler and Sir Benjamin Baker, who designed a structure that was built by Glasgow based company Sir William Arrol & Co. between 1883 and 1890. Baker and his colleague Allan Stewart received the major credit for design and overseeing building work.

The bridge was the first major structure in Britain to be constructed of steel;^[8] its contemporary, the Eiffel Tower was built of wrought iron.

Large amounts of steel had become available only after the invention of the Bessemer process in 1855. Until 1877 the British Board of Trade had limited the use of steel in structural engineering because the process produced steel of unpredictable strength. Only the Siemens-Martin open-hearth process developed by 1875 yielded steel of consistent quality. The 64,800 tons^{[clarification needed]} of steel needed for the bridge was provided by two steel works in Scotland and one in Wales.^[9]

type=printed postcards

theme=topographical: british

sub-theme=scotland

county/ country=midlothian/ edinburgh

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period=pre - 1914

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