For more than 120 years the job of painting the colossal Forth railway bridge has famously been a never-ending task.
So much steel is involved in the 1.5-mile long rail bridge over the Firth of Forth that, the legend goes, by the time the painters finish, they need to start over again at the other end.
Now, however, a date has been set for completion - 2012.
British engineering firm Balfour Beatty has been blasting off layers of paint from the bridge since 2002 and replacing them with a special coating designed to last 20 years.
On Monday, it said it had been awarded a £74million contract by Network Rail to complete the remaining restoration by 2012.
"The contract is set to mark the end of a modern myth," the firm said on its website.
Network Rail decided to accelerate the work and increase the annual investment with the aim of generating long-term financial savings.
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