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BETWEEN them, these three books are probably the most detailed and definitive ever produced covering train ferries from their earliest days; the very first in 1837 crossing the Susquehanna River in Maryland, USA and 13 years later in 1850 the first purpose-built train ferry ‘Leviathan’ began crossing the Firth of Forth connecting Fife to Edinburgh. Both these early examples were later superseded by bridges and this fate has befallen many of the other routes described in the two main volumes. The first purpose-built train ferry was built in the UK and UK shipyards continued to supply them around the world for the next century.