Forth Bridges: Spanning Three Centuries of Engineering Innovation
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- Опубліковано 26 лют 2018
- How the Forth Bridges - the first completed in the 19th century, the second in the 20th century and the latest in the 21st century - each represent the engineering pinnacle of their day. For more by The B1M subscribe now: ow.ly/GxW7y
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And the 19th Century example is STILL the most visually pleasing of the three. Absolutely iconic example mankind's ingenuity!
£250million UNDER budget?! Now that is something you don't hear very often!
I just hope it didn't affect quality in any way.
absolute excellence, what a wonderful achievement
Don't you mean the FORTH bridge!
@@cedeelbe I hope it was under budget because of logistics and materials became cheeper than they expected to pay for when the bridge was first budgeted.
the biggest achievement is £250million UNDER budget !!! a world record
I absolutely love seeing pictures/footage of bridges under construction. Always fascinating to see the engineering involved.
It’s awesome isn’t? Being an Engineer is one of the greatest jobs in the world.
Agreed. That's why I'm studying civil engineering at university. I'm a long ways off from being part of anything this cool, but I take it one day at a time.
@@TheB1M Any chance you could do a video sometime on why modern suspension bridges such as the Queensferry one are designed the way they are and why they are an improvement over traditional suspension bridges such as the first forth road bridge and first severn bridge? The latest designs seem like such a more obvious, easy to construct robust and better design with longevity in mind so I'm wondering why when they built the first forth and severn bridges they didn't use this design? Thanks
I remember vividly as a teenager journeying several times by train across the Forth Bridge when I lived in Aberdeen, and seeing the gradual construction of the Road Bridge at various stages in its development. Work started in September 1958.
When I was 16, my mother drove my brother and me to North Queensferry in her Morris 1000 to excitedly join the queues of vehicles which would be the first to cross the new bridge on 4th September 1964.
The original toll for crossing the bridge was 2s 6d (12 and a half new pence in today's currency), and the most recent toll of One Pound was eventually abolished in February 2008, when the Abolition of Bridge Tolls (Scotland) Act came into force, covering all road bridges in Scotland.
I've crossed the Forth Road Bridge this summer and the views of the Forth Bridge and Queensferry Bridge were breathtaking. Especially the rail bridge. The scale and ambition of humanity physically embodied in three great bridges.
These three bridges in the Edinburgh metropolitan area are engineering marvels for times they were conceived and constructed. This shows good the UK can be with innovation when they set their mind to it.
Nah only two are... One is generic cable stayed trash.
@@chdreturns That generic cable stayed trash broke 2 world records and is the longest three tower cable stayed trash in the world.
I am truely impressed by the first generation and the physics behind it!
I live in South Queensferry :)
They are planning on building a visitor centre that will allow you to walk to the top towers of the original Forth Bridge (the rail bridge)
It is the most beautiful bridge in the world, I took a train across it once and walked back across the road bridge. It's just fantastic.
Recently flew into Edinburgh airport and had wonderful bird's-eye view of the three bridges. What a sight and what engineering!
Visited North Queensferry last month. The Rail bridge is amazing.
I can’t wait til they build a fourth bridge!
there is further upstream...
Perhaps a high-speed rail bridge, who knows?
@@lewistaylor2858 yeah, the Kincardine Bridges
@@professorpodcast3029 exactly
you will have to wait until the 22nd C
Amazing quality and presentation, as always!
Ah thanks!! ...and thanks for watching!
Great video guys. Keep up the good work
I thought it said four bridges and kept thinking "there are only three? 🤔"
The bridges cross the Firth of Forth hence the name...
Forth is name of the River/Firth they cross, Firth is the Scottish word for a long narrow river mouth
Although there is 4 bridges on the Forth, the very first forth road bridge was the kinkardine bridge, still open, never had issues, and is very underated!
If you include the 2 bridges further up river at Kincardine, then there are 5 Forth bridges
Best B1M video yet! This one was really good!
Please. These bridges cross the Firth of Forth NOT the "Forth of Firth". That made my ears bleed. Firth is a Scots word meaning estuary and the Forth is the river whose estuary is crossed by the bridges. Apart from that, a well put together video - well done!
Right, and it's tributaries are called the Thyrd and Fith.
Ask a Scotsman why it’s the Forth River, and where’d the other 3 go, and you’ll probably learn some Scottish curse words!
@@joermnyc woah, they do?
And it is *not* the Forth Rail Bridge - it is the Forth Bridge.
The bridges in order are the Forth Bridge, the Forth Road Bridge, and the Queensferry Crossing.
One of your best videos yet!!!
Thank you!! ✊️👍🙏🙏
I was there a year ago. All three bridges are impressive. The old one looks like bathing dinosaurs.
Thank you for your excellent video.
@AdmiralOddSock So do I, drive past them going to/from work, nightmare coming back home from Edinburgh with the traffic approaching the qferry crossing, it's mis-use of the 3 lanes and people leaving the motorway to cross the roundabout and rejoin it to get ahead of the rest of the traffic, unaware that it's traffic merging from the A904 that causes the holdup in the first place, drives me bananas
I live half mile away
Thanks for a very educational video. I appreciate the inclusion of photos of construction of the Forth Bridge.
I remember travelling between the Queensferry’s on the ferries - see 1.12 - as a child in the 1950’s, with the Kincardine bridge being 5he only alternative if queues were long.
I’ve seen these bridges with my own eyes just a few years ago. They truly are striking!
I can see them right now out of my window
I seen them with someone else’s eyes
I really enjoyed visiting these Bridges, that is the two that existed in 1985 when I visited there and I took lots of pictures.
Great video, very well put together and informative.
lovely, I had no idea about the existence of these bridges, until now
Another brilliant review, a very interesting insight into the progress that has occurred in bridge building. 👌👌👏👏👏👏❤️
For me this video, these bridges the greatest structure ever for me.
Just wow
Fantastic video
The queensferry crossing will remain open in all weather ? A load of pish lol ! I wish it would..... it was closed for days in February because of ice falling from the cables and onto vehicles.
Bello reportaje. Se presentan diseños de décadas pasadas Con las innovaciones tecnológicas de la actualidad. Felicitaciones.
I got to know the Queensferry Bridge last week during a Scotland holiday. It is very beautiful, almost looks delicate and shiny. The road bridge I already knew, and "my mighty red" I've been enamoured with for 2 decades. I rode both on it with Scotrail and underneath with Suoerfast ferries. But I never knew about all the records and engineering accomplishments .... thanks for this video
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This is a very cool video. Thanks.
Loved this.
Beautiful
The Forth Bridge is so well built in large part because in the stage when different proposals for its design were being considered, a very recently built and long rail bridge nearby had collapsed when a train was crossing, killing everyone. Suddenly it became a lot easier to justify a higher cost project. Everyone realized the importance of not trying to make it as cheaply as possible, of not cutting corners, and of being very strict with the quality of the materials being used during its construction. Sadly, safe working conditions still didn't have a very high priority, and a shocking number of workers died. 73 deaths have been attributed to the construction of the bridge by historians due to various causes.
Excelent video !
i really enjoyed that. thanks
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We had to watch this vid for school and it’s an amazing video
so where's the fourth bridge ? LOL
you have to wait until the next century
Despite your 'jest',,,there is one.. indeed, there is a fifth one. There are two crossings further up the river near Kincardine. The Kincardine Bridge (biggest swing bridge in the world) and the nearby Clackmannanshire Bridge...tomyoungltd.co.uk/past-projects/kincardine-bridge/
"Forth", not "Fourth".
@@ericporter211 r/woooosh
Raspberry fury we talked about this
Hi thanks for posting. My father came from Leith but married in Northern Ireland and came to live in Larne. I remember visiting Scotland for holidays and crossing on the ferries and looking up at the Rail Bridge awesome it was as a young lad. I've crossed two bridges and hope some day to cross the new one. Thanks again
cool story bro
@@SuperNabbs Hi James I got to cross the new bridge on November 2019.That part of my bucket list ticked off.😎🤩
@@davymcg3718My dream is to paraglide onto the Burj Khalifa from mars whilst eating aged Tofu, Dont think that'll happen anytime soon if im being honest, But im allowed to dream i guess :D
pretty sweet!
Beautiful bridges! :)
And how perfect is that? 3 different time eras of bridge building all showcased in one big amazing view! :)
awesome vid! i worked on a big bridge but not as big as these ones! impressive
really interesting and awsome
you could do one about the history of the st gotthard massif from the tremola road to now there's lots of stuff i bet
Would love to see something about the West Gate Bridge in Melbourne. My favorite bridge.
@TheB1M Any chance of a deeper dive into the Forth Road Bridge and its troubles? I seem to remember that the strengthening process was quite innovative.
Mad cool I subscribed
The men making the shape of the bridge was a smart idea!!!!!!
2100: Hey lads how bout we build another bridge?!
yeah, the "fourth firth of forth bridge".
most stupid name ever. :D
Hover bridge??????
The OG rail bridge is the GOAT!
stay open in all weathers my backside. shuts every winter because of falling ice, some great engineering that
I saw the old road bridge when I was young. I looked at the pipe like holders asending up and down.
I like the fact that "building for the ages" has returned to the Firth of Forth as a guiding principle. It sounds as if they expect to take the high-maintenance 20th Century road bridge down at some point while the 21st Century one, like its 19th Century forebear, has been designed to last. There used to be a play on the slogan for Mercedes Benz- that they were "Overengineered like no other car"- but if you're building giant bridges, overengineering seems to be, long term, the way to go. I never get over how enormous that original one is, and how heavily built, in order to handle just 2 rail lines. But they wanted one that would never ever fall, unlike the disastrous one before it that collapsed one windy night with a train aboard, in the infamous Tay Bridge Disaster (1879). A bit surprised you didn't mention that actually 🤔
The only good thing about the second fourth bridge is that you get a beautiful view of the original fourth bridge. In my opinion, the original is the most beautiful bridge I've ever seen in person. This video just made me appreciate it that much more.
I love a good spoonerism. "The Forth of Firth". 🙂
So it’s the third bridge to cross the Firth of Forth? I can’t wait for the Fourth.
It's funny, I don't have any real life connection to any of these bridges, but I somehow managed to learn about both of them completely independently. I've driven over the old road bridge hundreds of times in Euro Truck Simulator and have spent hours studying the history and construction of the rail bridge to help me with designing a fictional bridge in a story. They both feel like familiar landmarks to me at this point, yet I had no idea they were right next to eachother until I saw this video.
Lmao
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Watching the Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carrier squeezing under the new bridge was a bit of a sight. Not sure the universe was ready for that much raw engineering in one place.
Hehe! I had that thought as well ;) So many British megastructures in one place!
Wow!!!
Historically, we Scots made up names specifically to trip up English speakers 😉 Great video, keep up the good work.
Perhaps Sir William Arrol deserves just a little credit for his ingenuity in building the railway bridge? I was surprised to hear the 1964 bridge described as being 'cutting edge'. Its design was approaching the end of the line for the early generation of that type of structure.
What is the large ‘catwalk-like’ span extended out from the main road deck for?
If you're referring to the suspension bridge, it's a cyclepath/pedestrian walkway either side of the main roadway.
great fun walking over, when lorries go past you can feel the bridge sway 😯
Oh dear! All the jibes at reversing Firth and Forth (an accident waiting to happen) Of course the Fourth of the Firth is a new description that fits the Kincardine Bridge which was inevitably overshadowed, even before it was opened, by the grandmother of all railway bridges. This is of course compounded by the nearby Clackmannanshire Bridge which leaves a right mouthful of Firth, Forth, Fith and Fourth.
Can't wait for the Fourth over Firth of Forth to Fife!
The issue with the Queensferry crossing is that large icicles form on the wires in winter and could potentially fall onto vehicles below.
But the cables are over the central reservation not directly over either carriageway no?
Tonight ( November 4th , 2023 ) the new automatic barrier system is being tried out for the first time to divert the traffic on the M90 over the forth road bridge when the queensferry crossing has to be closed. Millions of pounds have been spend recently on the forth road bridge, I drove over it recently and the carriageway was particularly smooth. I'm going to drive up and cross it just now.
The fourth rail bridge is still the best bridge there and the world.
100 years old and is still so unique and It’s fucking Red.
Inasmuch as significant over engineering was a direct response to its failure, mention of the original Tay Rail Bridge should always be referenced in any discussion involving the Forth Rail Bridge.
6:38 queen Elizabeth class aircraft carrier!
Ah yes, that one forbidden bridge in Forza Horizon 4 that back in the day we all thought that an expansion map will be connected to the bridge, until the expansion maps are revealed to be fortune island and lego speed champions.
Great video. I understood it as the new bridge was built because the old road bridge was in a poor state. Will the old bridge be closed?
It is only used for pedestrians, cyclists, taxi's, buses and 125cc bikes or under. Everything else uses the QFCrossing...
I heard that the forth road bridge would be coming down in time, that would leave no way across for pedestrians & cyclists as there is no side paths and the Qferry crossing is a motorway
@@MalkyMcCallum No, the Forth Road Bridge is staying for the long term (especially since it's a listed structure). Since the reduction in traffic, it makes strengthening work a lot easier to carry out, so the bridge can be maintained as a public transport and pedestrian/cycle route, or as a back up when the Queensferry Crossing is shut
0:14 "...to cross the Forth of Firth".
--> Anyone spot the mistake here?
Otherwise, an excellent video. Thanks for the upload.
How much paint do these and how long are they painting on the first bridge!?
they used to never stop painting the first bridge because by the time the had finished the other end paint would be wearing off
Wonderful presentation, but it is the “Firth” of Forth 🙌🏻
Fun fact: the Forth Bridge and the Forth Road Bridge are in GTA San Andreas, they connect San Fierro and Bone County
Now that's what I call the best graphics mod for GTA San Andreas🤔
Looks almost identical to the mersey gateway!
I wonder what the 22nd century bridge would look like.
HS3 finally reaches Scotland after all the NIMBY tories and backward politicians die out and two more generations' worth of bureaucratic bondoggles are overcome.
Past present and future
"just one more bridge bro it'll solve all car congestion"
Well I live in Scotland and I go on them every day
Well that’s nice
A double cantilever bridge, a suspension
bridge and a cable stayed bridge.
The fourth bridge just got shut down again because of ice.
The Forth Bridge is painted continuously since being built and by now the metal under tons of paint will make the bridge unsafe but like most things, they have to be cost-effective in favor of strict safety.
Epic Fail!!!! 😂 No, it's not. Old paint was removed a decade ago and modern coating technology is now used. Best check your sources, a quick search will show how much was spent and the safety record. ;)
This bridge is shut today due to ice falling onto cars haha
Will there be a fourth Forth bridge?
These new forza graphics look cool
I guess we will have to wait for a next century for fourth bridge in Forth
Any plans to demolish the second bridge?
Linus Wärn remaining, will be for public transport and pedestrians only.
Jonathan Kean Also lorries and emergency vehicles.
To the west of the newest bridge there is more room for another bridge, if need be.
The forth of fifth, But there are only Three??? Can't wait to see the Fifth of six?
Correction - 11th not 12th century.
Search for my ice-busting blog post : "Electrically de-icing the Queensferry Crossing cable-stayed bridge"
Now all that is needed is an actual Fourth Bridge...a real Fourth of Forth of Firth...
Third of Forth ;)
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I didn't know san fierro was based in scotland
"Open in all weathers"? That was what they told us - but the first time there was ice on cables of the Queensferry Crossing? Shut!
The Fourth rail bridge is the first bridge, the fourth road bridge is the second bridge and the queensferry crossing is not a ferry crossing. ☝️😌
The Forth of Firth?
Scotland gets these 3 bridges over 2 strait yet we in North Wales only have 2 bridges which are tiny and full of traffic going into Isle of Anglesey. We need a 3rd bridge soon
Big difference in economic advantages, though. This is a major link to the north of Scotland where the oil industry is, unlike Wales that’s a major link to fuck all.
@@gaelenski_ A major link to fuck all - Like... Ireland?
Yeah, I know what you're probably gonna say, if so, don't even bother.