Fife cantilever with No. 1 strut and lifting platform nearly up to rail level

"Photograph of the Fife cantilever with No. 1 strut and lifting platform nearly up to rail level. The preceding illustrations of the series have been chiefly confined to representing the progress of the superstructure in an upward direction, but a glance at this view will be sufficient to enable the observer to perceive that growth in that direction is now hereafter substituted by progress north and south, and that in spite of the formidable nature of work hitherto depicted the real difficulties of the design are yet to be encountered. The vertical ties here represented upon such a small scale are those formerly referred to, near the end of 12 feet tube. The internal viaduct has been carried out some feet beyond the verticals, and No. 1 struts are well up to rail level. The last month's work has produced a considerable change in the appearance of the upper part of the structure. The first sign of top member and tie No. 1 will be noticed projecting some ten feet beyond upper part of north vertical columns, and the whole length of connecting members appears complete." Transcription from: Philip Phillips, 'The Forth Railway Bridge', Edinburgh, 1890.

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