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Tartan of the Day
Jul 11
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Cross a Bridge Day!
"🎶 The Forth for all its beauty was deep and dark and wide
For centuries the travelers stood sadly by the tide
Then Baker was the engineer to span the Forth at last
Arrol were the builders who finished bridge bewilders and enthralls us
its humpback beauty calls us
a bridge back to the past."
~ The Forth Bridge, Robin Laing, 1994
“Three Bridges for Three Centuries!” This tartan was created to honor Scotland’s iconic Forth Bridges—the only place in the world where three major transport bridges were built in three consecutive centuries.
The design encodes this history directly into its woven sett. The broad central white band carries a count of 20, representing the completion of the Queensferry Crossing in 2017. The wide grey bands, with a count of 19, mark the opening of the Forth Road Bridge in 1964, while their arrangement also recalls the two suspension towers with their distinctive central crosses. Finally, the bold red bands, counted as 18, celebrate the completion of the world-famous Forth Railway Bridge in 1890—a masterpiece so iconic it is even stitched into the Great Tapestry of Scotland.
Three bridges, three centuries, one remarkable span of history. Gotta cross them all! 💙 💚 💛 🖤 🤍 ❤️ 🌉
The Forth Bridge is a cantilever railway bridge across the Firth of Forth in the east of Scotland, 9 miles west of central Edinburgh. Completed in 1890, it is considered a symbol of Scotland (having been voted Scotland's greatest man-made wonder iand is a World Heritage site.
It was designed by English engineers Sir John Fowler and Sir Benjamin Baker. It is sometimes referred to as the Forth Rail Bridge (to distinguish it from the adjacent Forth Road Bridge), although this has never been its official name.
Construction of the bridge began in 1882 and it was opened on 4 March 1890 by the Duke of Rothesay, the future Edward VII. The bridge carries the Edinburgh–Aberdeen line across 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).
The Forth Road Bridge is a suspension bridge in east central Scotland. The bridge opened in 1964 and at the time was the longest suspension bridge in the world outside the United States. The bridge spans the Firth of Forth, connecting Edinburgh, at South Queensferry, to Fife, at North Queensferry. It replaced a centuries-old ferry service to carry vehicular traffic, cyclists and pedestrians across the Forth.
he Queensferry Crossing (formerly the Forth Replacement Crossing) is a road bridge in Scotland. It was built alongside the existing Forth Road Bridge and the Forth Bridge. It carries the M90 motorway across the Firth of Forth between Edinburgh, at South Queensferry, and Fife, at North Queensferry. It opened to traffic on 30 August 2017.
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