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The world's first train-ferry, The Leviathan, operating between Granton and Burntisland from 1850, linking Midlothian directly with the Kingdom (or county) of Fife on the opposite side of the Firth. The train ferry required a complicated series of ramps to load and unload the freight carriages and to cope with the varying tides of the Firth. The Forth Railway Bridge, opened in 1890, took some of the traffic, but car and passenger traffic continued to use the ferry until the Forth Road Bridge opened in 1964. Granton harbour also housed a large fishing fleet. [edit] Research TipsRefer to Cramond Parish and Edinburgh. |