Forth Bridge
Railway bridge in eastern Scotland
Also known as Forth Rail Bridge · The Forth Bridge
- Country
- Located in
- City of Edinburgh
- , Fife
- , Inverkeithing
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- +2 more
- Founded
- 1890
Overview
All data
75 statements · 27% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Heritage designation
- category A listed building(since 1973)
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- World Heritage Site(since 2015)
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- Historic Civil Engineering Landmark
- category A listed building(since 1973)
- Opened
- March 4, 1890
- Clearance
- 46 m
- Length
- 2,528.7 m
- Height
- 110 m
- Historic county
- West Lothian applies to part: south
- Fife applies to part: north
- Native label
- Forth Bridge
- Located on linear feature
- East Coast (Northern) Line (Edinburgh to Aberdeen), Edinburgh to Camperdown Junction engineer's line reference: ECN2 · linear reference: 9.5875 mi, 11.1625 mi
- Associated electoral district
- Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy(July 2024)
- Edinburgh West(July 2024)
- Owned by
- Forth Bridge Railway(until 1947)
On other databases
34 identifiers linking Forth Bridge across the web's reference databases
- ArchINFORM project ID1735
- ASCE Historical Civil Engineering Landmark IDfirth-of-forth-railway-bridge
- Atlas Obscura place IDforth-railway-bridge
- BabelNet ID00653179n
- BBC Things ID96d75835-3149-43d0-a2f7-3acabdedad6d
- British Listed Buildings ID200342372
- Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online IDforth-bridge-welterbe
- Brueckenweb ID166
- Canmore ID50614
- Emporis building ID1227709
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online IDtopic/Forth-Bridge
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026)2f7wWV
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021)93826
- Freebase ID/m/012b9d
- Gazetteer for Scotland place IDfeatures/featurefirst1053
- GB1900 ID57efc25e2c66dca32200dfbf
- GeoNames ID6695705
- GND ID1336150580
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia IDForth_Bridge
- Historic Environment Scotland IDLB9977
- J9U entity ID987007534520505171
- Library of Congress Authorities IDsh91004669
- National Library of Israel ID (old)000810212
- National Library of Wales Authority IDforth-bridge-fife-and-lothian-railroad-bridge
- OpenStreetMap relation ID10070596
- Out tag IDrupaul-s-drag-race-all-stars-5
- RailScot location IDF/Forth_Bridge
- SNARC IDQ139615
- Structurae structure ID20000024
- Undiscovered Scotland IDqueensferry/forthrailbridge
- VIAF cluster ID315530723
- World Heritage Site ID1485
- WorldCat Entities IDE39PBJjRTBpkXrq7HDydd9vT73
- Yale LUX IDplace/a3d9bb7a-9896-4221-bb49-f4823cd5663d