I remember it being built. I used to live in Edinburgh and work in Kirkcaldy and had a book of prepaid tickets so I could hand one to the tollbooth guy without having to fiddle with cash. A last important point: there is no Forth Rail Bridge. There are the Forth Bridge (the one with the railway), the Forth Road Bridge and the Queensferry Crossing. These days I live in Birkenhead so I know what you mean about the toll plaza.
Nice video 👌, I really must head that way at some point, the 3 bridges together look awesome. Would be interested to know how suspension bridge cables can be replaced, let the Googling commence
At least you had fairly good weather, the last time I was there in June 2016 it was fog bound, you could not see much of any of the three bridges that day.
Didn’t know that you can walk along that bridge if you are allowed to. I think it’s used for buses, emergency vehicles and local businesses to get to and from Edinburgh. With the M90 bridge next door to the old A90 bridge.
They’re trailing a moveable barrier that will move across the carriage way to divert traffic away from the Queensferry Crossing to the FRB. This is because when they did a practice with laying out cones. I think it was a couple of hours to do. The traffic impact was huge. Before they Queensferry crossing opened, the FRB have to be shut completely as one of the truss end joints (which connect the deck to the towers) had a crack and they said if it had failed the deck could have dropped several feet. It cost the Scottish economy millions with the bridge being shut. It’s the only place in the world to have a bridge from the last 3 centuries. If you thought the bridge wobbled then, when we were little and went to visit my grandparents who live in S. Queensferry, we used to walk the bridge with my grandad. We used to love standing in the middle and feeling the bridge bouncing as the Lorries would go thundering past. The whole thing used to rattle and vibrate. It was epic. When they had tolls in both directions you’d often queue on the bridge going south. If it was windy you could look across to the forth bridge and you would see it get closer and further away as the deck swayed.
I’ve been to the top, there are lifts inside and when you’re up there you can feel it gently sway. Wasn’t a fan of driving on the footpath, too close to the edge, lol.
2.5km long footpath? I'm surprised someone's not already organised a parkrun along it, like they have for the Severn Bridge (on the Special Road that runs alongside the M48).
I don’t know if they still do it, but there was the two bridges run where you’d cross Kincardine Bridge then run through Fife before crossing the forth road bridge. My grandad used to be a Marshall for it.
No, the bridge has simply been given a new purpose. There's a discussion to be had about the new bridge only having two lanes each way which is a definite bottleneck...
