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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.
4th March 1890
There are two bridges over the Firth of Forth. The rail bridge and the road bridge.
The Forth Bridge spans over the Firth of Forth in Scotland. It carries rail traffic between Edinburgh at South Queensferry and Fife at North Queensferry.
The Forth Rail Bridge.
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The Forth Rail Bridge.
The Forth road and rail bridges span the Firth of Forth, which is the estuary of the River Forth in Scotland near the city of Edinburgh.
For trains to cross the forth hundreds of trains cross it each day if it wasn't for the forth rail bridge journey times from Edinburgh to the north will take a lot longer
There are two bridges over the Forth linking the Scottish captal city Edinburgh to the Kingdom of Fife: The most famous Forth Railway Bridge; designed by Sir John Fowler and Sir Benjamin Baker and opened in 1890, was the worlds first major steel bridge and remains the longest cantelever design rail bridge in the world. The Forth Road bridge, a 2.5Km suspension bridge (the longest single span being over 1 Km), was opened on Sept 4 1964.