Cavenagh Bridge

This guide to Cavenagh Bridge in Singapore opens with a company of Madras sepoys ordered to march across the newly bolted iron structure in 1869 before anyone else was allowed to cross. You'll hear how every piece was forged in Glasgow, load-tested in Scotland, and shipped to a city its designers had never seen, and about the governor the bridge was named for, who left office before it opened. Look for the old sign at the entrance that still bans horses and cattle.