From ferries to bridge tolls, from the Forth Road Bridge to the Queensferry Crossing, generations have made the journey by car, bus, bike taxi … and boat.
The news this week that a ferry could run from Leith to Kirkcaldy sparked memories of previous sailings which were a daily occurrence until the Forth Road Bridge opened in 1964.
These pictures look back through the decades at just how much has changed travelling from the capital to the Kingdom.
9. Memories of crossing the Forth
The Spirit of Fife ferry, sailing aross the Firth of Forth between Granton near Edinburgh and Burntisland, March 1991. Photo: Denis Straughan
10. Memories of crossing the Forth
Anthony Troon pays his half crown at the toll barrier on the Forth Road Bridge Photo: Denis Straughan
11. Memories of crossing the Forth
Jacqui Ward on one of Forth Ferries vessels doing the Granton to Burntisland run as a storm gathers on the company's first birthday in April 1992 Photo: Alistair Devine
12. Memories of crossing the Forth
The ferry boat from Granton to Burntisland - William Muir finishes service while the Thane of Fife is its successor Locally Known as the Willie Muir, she had been in service for 58 years and clocked 800,000 miles steaming. She went to the shipbreakers, but her deck was saved and forms part of the bar in the clubhouse of the local boat club at Brucehaven, near Limekilns The Ferry service was abandoned in 1946 and the "Thane" which mostly did tender duties during the WWII , went to a breakers yard in Alloa in 1947. Photo: Unknown