A Song about my Favorite Rail Bridge

[jis]

I always visit it whenever I visit Edinburgh. It is a short train ride to North Queensferry on any local train to Fife across the Firth of Forth. Take a local train and not a though train to Aberdeen or Dundee or some such, since they will more than likely, not stop at North Queensferry.

Any train that is not local to Fife tends to have its first stop in Fife at the next station - Inverkeithing.

Fife incidentally is Macbeth country. He was the Thane of Fife.

 

[cirdan]

Talking about great railroad bridges of Scotland, let us not forget the Tay Bridge as celebrated by William McGongall

Obviosuly not as poetically polished as your song, but very memorable for other reasons.

https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/tay-bridge-disaster/

 

[willem]

My understanding is that the Forth Bridge was designed shortly after the Tay Bridge blew over, and the designers were determined that such a fate would not befall the Forth Bridge. Certainly it looks "hell for stout."

I also heard that one of the two simply supported spans, when it was floated into place, was a few inches too short. With the engineer's approval, they built fires on the span, it stretched, and the workers pounded the pins in place and extinguished the fires. Wikipedia confirms that construction began a few years after the Tay Bridge collapse, but is silent on the issue of fire being used to assemble the bridge.

In any event, it is a beautiful bridge, and I hope to get to it some day. Thanks for posting.

 

[mcropod]

Talking about great railroad bridges of Scotland, let us not forget the Tay Bridge as celebrated by William McGongall

Obviosuly not as poetically polished as your song, but very memorable for other reasons.

https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/tay-bridge-disaster/

You've got your Amanda Gorman - Scotland has William McGonagall

 

[mcropod]

I always visit it whenever I visit Edinburgh. It is a short train ride to North Queensferry on any local train to Fife across the Firth of Forth. Take a local train and not a though train to Aberdeen or Dundee or some such, since they will more than likely, not stop at North Queensferry.

Any train that is not local to Fife tends to have its first stop in Fife at the next station - Inverkeithing.

Fife incidentally is Macbeth country. He was the Thane of Fife.

Scotland likes its railway bridges so much, it puts them on its currency.

 

[mcropod]

Story and vid about a recent crossing of the FRB in the snow and fog:

https://www.scotsman.com/news/trans...Gwg&utm_content=110253938&utm_source=hs_email

 

[jis]

Story and vid about a recent crossing of the FRB in the snow and fog:

https://www.scotsman.com/news/trans...Gwg&utm_content=110253938&utm_source=hs_email

Nice video. Not clear exactly what is alarming about it though.

 

[IndyLions]

it was also a great location for a great movie in 1935!