the foundation stone laid, but the project was cancelled after the 1879 disaster. One of the piers still remains at the site. Bouch died, a broken man, in 1880. A different design for a cantilever bridge was drawn up by Sir Benjamin Baker and Sir John Fowler, and the Forth Bridge to their design was completed in 1890. Modern alternative to bridges In 2007, in a two-week trial jointly funded by SEStran and Stagecoach, a passenger hovercraft ran between Kirkcaldy and Edinburgh, but Stagecoach have indicated that they are not interested in developing this into a service. The new Stirling-Alloa-Kincardine rail link diverted coal trains away from the bridge. Instead they travel via Stirling to Longannet Power Station. Freight restrictions may then be lifted, with the potential of increasing the number of trains from 10 tph (trains per hour) to 12. References Citations Sources Transport in Scotland Firth of Forth Bridges in Scotland