Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Triangular cantilevers march across the Firth of Forth, their riveted ironwork expressing the confidence of late-Victorian engineering. Opened in 1890, the Forth Railway Bridge bound Edinburgh to the north with unprecedented scale and stiffness, a lattice of red steel poised above tidal water. A small boat and calm evening light temper the monumentality, framing an enduring icon of British industrial craft.
