Kincardine Bridge

56.065139 - 3.727278Koordinaten: 56 ° 3 ' 54.5 "N, 3 ° 43' 38.2 " W

Firth of Forth

The Kincardine Bridge is a road bridge over the Firth of Forth in Scotland, which transferred the A985 ( Kincardine Inverkeithing ) of Kincardine to Falkirk. She was facing the open sea on the nearest road bridge over the Firth of Forth before the construction of the Forth Road Bridge.

The bridge was built in 1932-1936 according to the plans of the engineering firm Sir Alexander Gibb & Partners and made a detour via Stirling superfluous. The middle part of the bridge is designed as a swing bridge, so that shipping to the port Alloa is not obstructed by the bridge. The bridge is equipped with one lane per direction and originally led the A876 ( Kincardine Airth ). She also served after the opening to traffic of the Forth Road Bridge to the diversion of Edinburgh in the north of Scotland, when the Forth Road Bridge was closed due to maintenance work, which often led to traffic congestion in the streets of Kincardine.

Was to relieve Kincardine from through traffic and to cope with the volume of traffic has grown, the Clackmannanshire Bridge was built, which opened in 2008 and from then on the A876 to Kincardine led past.

The Kincardine Bridge was temporarily closed in 2011 and underwent an extensive renovation. Today it is a Scottish homeland security object of category A.

A roads in Zone 9 of the Great Britain numbering scheme Structurae

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