Date: 05/07/2015

The Forth Bridge has become the sixth Scottish landmark to be awarded Unesco World Heritage Site status.
The decision was announced at a meeting in the German city of Bonn after the UN^s heritage committee spent more than a year considering its nomination.
World heritage status is given to sites of ^outstanding universal value^ with the aim of protecting them for future generations.
The distinctive red bridge has carried trains over the Forth since 1890.
Scotland^s other World Heritage Sites are New Lanark, St Kilda, the Old and New Towns in Edinburgh, Neolithic Orkney and the Antonine Wall.

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The Forth Bridge becomes the sixth Scottish landmark to be awarded Unesco World Heritage Site status.

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An evening view of the Forth Bridge from Dalgety Bay in March 2012
Location: Forth Bridge
Company: Forth Bridge Railway
/03/2012 Bill Roberton

Scene at Hawes Pier, South Queensferry in June 1962 as the paddle-driven ferry Robert the Bruce, (with a carrying capacity of 28 cars), prepares for another crossing. One of 4 such ferries withdrawn on the opening of the road bridge in 1964, it was cut up by P&W McLellan at Bo'ness the following year. Meantime, high above the water, a Standard Class 5 and a B1 can be seen double-heading a northbound goods train onto the Forth Bridge.
Location: Forth Bridge
Company: Forth Bridge Railway
/06/1962 Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven)

The passage of No. 60009 Union of South Africa through North Queensferry with an Edinburgh to Aberdeen railtour provokes some excitement amongst the gallery on 25 March 1978.
Location: North Queensferry
Company: Forth Bridge Railway
25/03/1978 Bill Jamieson

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