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- The Tay Bridge (Scottish Gaelic: Drochaid-rèile na Tatha) carries rail traffic across the Firth of Tay in Scotland between Dundee and the suburb of Wormit in Fife.
- In addition, it examines the question of how many lives were lost. The first Tay rail bridge was completed in February 1878 to the design of Thomas Bouch.
- Few, if any, rail accidents have lived as long in the collective memory as that of the Tay Bridge disaster of 28th December 1879.
- The viaduct replaced the Tay Bridge [1st], 59 ft downstream. It is 89 spans long. 118 girders from the original bridge were reused in the new bridge.
- At 7:15 p.m. on the stormy night of 28 December 1879, the central spans of the Tay bridge collapsed into the Firth of Tay at Dundee.
- At the time of the Tay Bridge collapse, he was engaged in designing a bridge to cross the Firth of Forth. He was taken off that project, and he died 10 months later.
- His most famous piece, entitled “The Tay Bridge Disaster” has been hailed as the worst example of poetry in English literature.
- The views are wonderful from this bridge in all seasons. On one side you have views down Loch Tay with the hills before you including Ben Lawers.
- And the dark clouds seem’d to frown, And the Demon of the air seem’d to say—. “I’ll blow down the Bridge of Tay.” When the train left Edinburgh.
