Sir William Arrol & Co.’s Forth Bridge Opens as the World’s Longest Cantilever Span
CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCENetwork Rail[3] confirms the Prince of Wales formally opened the Forth Bridge on 4 March 1890.
The Forth Bridge, a railway cantilever spanning the Firth of Forth in Scotland, was formally opened by the Prince of Wales on 4 March 1890, some months after the structure itself was finished in November 1889. Designed by John Fowler and Benjamin Baker and built by Sir William Arrol & Co., it was Britain's first major all-steel structure and the world's longest cantilever bridge span.
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