Sujet

Forth Bridge, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1900. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

The Forth Bridge is a cantilever railway bridge across the Firth of Forth in the east of Scotland, 9 miles (14 kilometres) west of Edinburgh City Centre. It is considered an iconic structure and a symbol of Scotland (having been voted Scotland's greatest man-made wonder in 2016), and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It was designed by the English engineers Sir John Fowler and Sir Benjamin Baker. The bridge spans the Forth between the villages of South Queensferry and North Queensferry and has a total length of 8,094 feet (2,467 m). When it opened it had the longest single cantilever bridge span in the world, until 1919 when the Quebec Bridge in Canada was completed. It continues to be the world's second-longest single cantilever span, with a span of 1,709 feet (521 m).

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM25A55_046

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

52,8Mo (6,3Mo) / 42,0cm x 31,5cm / 4960 x 3722 (300dpi)

Mots clés

transport transportation UK library historical railways architecture country bridge bridges British railway Scotland structure scene photography text depiction location SCOTTISH architectural vintage Britain photograph Edinburgh concept photo Firth of Forth Great Britain B&W lettering NAME names railway bridge black & white black and white B W cantilever cantilever bridge Scots history historic Forth Bridge TGN photograph Unknown Baker Sir John Fowler Fowler John Fowler John Sir Benjamin Baker Benjamin Baker named 1st Baronet Sir John Benjamin Sir Benjamin Heritage Art cantilevered railroad bridge National Library of Australia Robert Augustus Henry L'Estrange Collection