It is newly painted in what some see as a rather mundane shade of ochre - but yesterday Mother Nature decided that the Forth Bridge deserved better.
In a trice the heavens opened up and suddenly the world's most distinctive rail bridge was bathed in all the bright colours of the rainbow. It was the ideal backdrop for the bridge, standing in all its glory - free of scaffolding for the first time in ten years.
It was also a historic moment for the team of 200 workmen carrying out what was known as the world's longest paint job.
For the first time since 1890 they could lay down their brushes, knowing they won't have to start all over again on Monday.
Thanks to advances in paint ‘technology’, the one-and-a-half mile bridge, with its 43 acres of surface and 6.5million rivets will not require a paint job for 25 years.
Maintenance of the bridge has passed into the language to describe an endless task. ‘It is like painting the Forth Bridge,’ goes the saying. Now that has been made redundant by a triple-layer coat of super-strong paint.
A Network Rail spokesman said: ‘The bridge looks amazing, restored to its original glory. It’s looking almost as good as when it was first built.’
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