THE FORTH BRIDGE COMPLETED
(PBR PBBAB ASSOCIATION.), London, September 28. The great Forth bridge is now finished.; Tha Forth bridge is the greata-t work of in kind In tbe world, lt baa extraordinary spans for a rigid structure, of a third of a mile iu length, <3*.ch being made • y two oantilevera ot 680ft long, united by 350ft of glrdera The atruotnre curries the railway high above the side of the Vniley of the Forth, the plera being nearly th* height of St Pant's Cathedral. Sir Jjhn Fowler and Mr B. j Biker, 0,15., were tho engineers. The brllgo coutfttca over 60,000 tons of the finer, stool that ooald be produced. Ir w<>» bgun in 1883 At the hulf-y^rly meeting of the Forth Bridge Kat way Company on August 21at, 1888, tbe fi-glutera' Report stated tbat the monthly average toe. nuge ereoted rxoonded 1400 tone, with •■ m»-xhnnm of 2350 tona.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2241, 1 October 1889, Page 2
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150THE FORTH BRIDGE COMPLETED Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2241, 1 October 1889, Page 2
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