This is the Forth Road bridge that we walked over.
We visited Queensferry which is 14kms west of Edinburgh and walked over the Forth Road bridge.
Queensferry is a nice little seaside town similar to Eastbourne in Wellington NZ.
The bridge was designed to be very strong after the Tay Rail Bridge disaster left 75 people dead.
The scots were nervous about the engineers creating an even larger bridge so the engineers made sure the bridge was over engineered to be very safe.
98 people lost their lives building the bridge and at it's peak there were 4600 people working on construction.
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