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Sir John Fowler built it along with his friend Benjamin Baker.
The Forth Rail Bridge was
- the biggest manmade construction of its time - it was the largest civil engineering structure of the nineteenth century.
- the largest span bridge in the world
- also the first bridge to be constructed purely of steel . In fact in using steel produced by the Siemens open-hearth process, it established mild steel as a reliable structural material
- The bridge took seven years to build, cost £3.2 million (counting £250,000 for the abortive construction work on the earlier bridge designed by ) and used in excess of 50,000 tons of steel and 6.5 million rivets
- Fifty eight people died, one hundred and six received serious injuries and five hundred and eighteen other accidents occurred over the seven years construction lasted.
- A total of 5000 workers were employed in its construction
- In 1907 29,675 passenger trains crossed the bridge with a gross weight of 14,674,750 tons. This usage contrasts with the present day - when during 2000 the bridge carried 54,080 passenger and 6,240 freight trains with a gross weight of 10,500,000 tons.
- The Bridge replaced the Granton - Burntisland ferry - many of the passengers that were killed in the Tay Bridge disaster had used the ferry to cross over the Firth of Forth
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∙ 11y agoIt was built between 1883 and 1890.
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At the time that the bridge was built, technology wasn't good enough to build a tunnel of the necessary length.
When was the forth bridge built?
It was built between 1883 and 1890.
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1964
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When was firth of forth built?
The Firth of Forth was not "built" - it was created by a glacier in the last ice age. A firth is the lowland Scots word for an inlet from the sea, much the same as the Scandinavian word 'fjord' - in this case the estuary of the River Forth. I think you probably mean "When was the Forth (Rail) Bridge built?", and the answer to that is between 1883 & 1890. It was joined by a parallel road bridge in 1964. The railway bridge - still a hugely impressive structure - was the engineering wonder of its age, though it was achieved at the cost of many workers' lives. It is seen in a number of old films - most famously in both the 1935 & 1959 versions of "The 39 Steps".
Why was the Fourth Road Bridge built?
The forth road was built so that people and goods could cross the forth faster than waiting on the trains which run at set times as the only fast route across the forth at the time was kinkarden bridge which takes a longer journey to get from Edinburgh to fife and viceversa, there is a new bridge due to be built but I don't know when.
