Forth Bridge in Scotland set to get the tag of UNESCO World Heritage site

Scotland's Forth Bridge is on its way to getting the tag of UNESCO World Heritage Site. It has been praised as a ‘masterpiece of human creative genius’ and the nomination is being considered this weekend at a UN heritage meeting in Germany.
It has been recommended for approval by a group of construction experts.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 3 July 2015.

Forth Bridge is a cantilever railway bridge and it sits over the Firth of Forth estuary in the east of Scotland, nine miles west of Edinburgh City Centre. It has a distinctive structure, and a Scottish icon. Its supporters have described it as ‘an extraordinary milestone in the history of bridge construction’.
Work on construction of the 2529-meter long bridge had started in 1882 and it took eight years to complete. At that time, the red colored bridge was the world’s longest multi-span cantilever bridge.
Once the approval is granted, it would become Scotland’s sixth World Heritage Site. The others are Orkney’s Neolithic sites, the Antonine Wall, New Lanark, St Kilda and Edinburgh’s Old and New Towns.
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