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But the bridge’s collapse after just over 18 months in operation ... And when it came to memorializing the Tay Bridge epic in verse, the misguided rhymester fancied himself up to the task.
The Tay Bridge cost £300,000 to build ... The highest girders collapsed, plunging the engine and all six carriages into the freezing water. An inquiry blamed Bouch for a "badlydesigned, badly ...
News item on the death of engineer Sir Thomas Bouch, who designed the bridge which collapsed in a storm killing 75 people The collapse of the Tay Bridge was one of the worst engineering disasters of ...
The bridge collapsed during a violent storm in December 1879 The number of people who died in the Tay Bridge disaster is closer to 60, rather than 75, researchers have revealed. The bridge ...
Image caption, Margaret Wright said the final Fifie sailing from Newport-on-Tay was "very emotional ... men lost when part of the temporary bridge collapsed in November 1965.
A series of amazing images show how the new Tay Bridge was built in the 1880s. The construction of the second crossing followed the tragic rail disaster in 1879 when the original bridge collapsed ...
The granite cairns were unveiled at ceremonies on either side of the river Memorials to commemorate the Tay Bridge disaster have been unveiled. It is 134 years since the bridge collapsed during a ...
On the 28th December 1879, during a ferocious storm, the Tay Bridge collapsed killing 75 passengers and crew. The cause was never conclusively known, but Thomas Bouch was disgraced and blamed for ...