The Queensferry Passage

The history of The Queensferry Passage and The Ferries spans more than a thousand years from the time of Queen Margaret until the opening of the Forth Road Bridge in 1964.

From the 1800’s the ferries sailed to and from The Town Pier in North Queensferry, operating a 7 X 24 operation guided to safety by the The Light Tower

As the 19th century drew to a close, the ferries on the Queensferry Passage faced competition from the Railways. They built competing ferry crossings from Burntisland to Newhaven, then from Port Edgar to North Queensferry, before spanning the Forth with the mighty Rail Bridge in 1890.

There were earlier attempts to bridge the Forth and even a scheme for A Replacement Forth Bridge in 1945.

But the ferries continued to run until 1964 when they were finally made obsolete by the Forth Road Bridge, which in turn was surpassed by the Queensferry Crossing which opened in 2018.