{"id":14296,"date":"2026-05-08T15:54:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T15:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/?p=14296"},"modified":"2026-10-13T21:21:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T21:21:05","slug":"forth-bridge-ecosse-royaume-uni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/united-kingdom\/scotland\/forth-bridge-scotland-united-kingdom\/","title":{"rendered":"Pont du Forth, \u00c9cosse, Royaume-Uni"},"content":{"rendered":"

Le pont du Forth est l\u2019un des ouvrages d\u2019art les plus reconnaissables du Royaume-Uni. Il franchit le Firth of Forth entre South Queensferry et North Queensferry, \u00e0 14 km \u00e0 l\u2019ouest du centre d\u2019\u00c9dimbourg ; ce pont ferroviaire, con\u00e7u par Sir John Fowler et Sir Benjamin Baker, a \u00e9t\u00e9 inaugur\u00e9 le 4 mars 1890. Ses trois \u00e9normes cantilevers en acier, peints dans une teinte appel\u00e9e \u00ab Forth Bridge red \u00bb, en ont fait un symbole de l\u2019\u00c9cosse et un jalon de l\u2019ing\u00e9nierie victorienne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Construit pour faire passer les trains entre \u00c9dimbourg et le nord de l\u2019\u00c9cosse, le pont mesure 2 467 m\u00e8tres de long et fut le premier grand ouvrage de Grande-Bretagne r\u00e9alis\u00e9 en acier. Ses deux trav\u00e9es principales de 521 m\u00e8tres \u00e9taient les plus longues du monde \u00e0 son ouverture, et ses tours s\u2019\u00e9l\u00e8vent \u00e0 environ 110 m\u00e8tres au-dessus de l\u2019eau. Le pont est inscrit au patrimoine mondial de l\u2019UNESCO depuis 2015. Les trains le traversent toujours chaque jour et offrent aux voyageurs une large vue sur l\u2019estuaire et sur les deux ponts routiers voisins, le Forth Road Bridge de 1964 et le Queensferry Crossing de 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Informations pour les visiteurs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Les plus belles vues s\u2019offrent depuis le front de mer de South Queensferry : on longe le rivage jusqu\u2019\u00e0 Hawes Pier, on photographie le pont et on regarde les trains passer au-dessus de sa t\u00eate. North Queensferry, sur la rive oppos\u00e9e, donne un autre angle, juste sous les cantilevers. Les croisi\u00e8res au d\u00e9part de Hawes Pier passent sous les trois ponts du Forth et permettent souvent d\u2019apercevoir phoques et oiseaux marins ; certaines font escale sur l\u2019\u00eele d\u2019Inchcolm et son abbaye m\u00e9di\u00e9vale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seeing the bridge is free: there is no ticket and the shore is open at all times. In 2026 a 90-minute sightseeing cruise with Maid of the Forth costs \u00a318 for adults and \u00a310.50 for children aged 5\u201315, and the three-hour trip with a landing on Inchcolm costs \u00a321, plus \u00a37.50 admission to the island. Sailings are most frequent in summer, so check the timetable before you go. After dark the bridge is floodlit, and sunset is the favourite time for photographers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From Edinburgh Waverley, trains take about 15\u201320 minutes to Dalmeny station, from where a path leads down to the waterfront in 10\u201315 minutes; the same trains then cross the bridge to North Queensferry. Local buses and organised day tours from Edinburgh also serve South Queensferry. The town has restaurants, caf\u00e9s and a historic high street, which makes it an easy half-day trip from the Scottish capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Le pont du Forth est un pont ferroviaire en acier rouge de 1890 qui franchit le Firth of Forth pr\u00e8s d\u2019\u00c9dimbourg ; class\u00e9 \u00e0 l\u2019UNESCO, il se contemple gratuitement.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1098,977,1077,1020],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scotland","category-architecture","category-unesco-heritage","category-united-kingdom"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14296"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17057,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14296\/revisions\/17057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}