The Forth Railway Bridge was the first major steel suspension bridge in the world, completed in 1890. In those days it was coated in lead paint which took so long to apply that the bridge has never been without painting crews. A new type of coating is now applied with a life of 20 years which will see the bridge free of painters for some years after 2009. The railway bridge was joined by a road bridge in 1964 when roughly 1.5 million vehicles used it. Nowadays about 25 million vehicles use it per year. External Link

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