This article is about the rail bridge. For the road bridge, see Tay Road Bridge. For other bridges across the Tay and all other uses, see Tay Bridge (disambiguation).
Tay Bridge
Tay Bridge at Dundee, Scotland, from the Dundee Law
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. Its span is 2.75 miles (4.43 kilometres). It is the second bridge to occupy the site.
Plans for a bridge over the Tay to replace the train ferry service emerged in 1854, but the first Tay Bridge did not open until 1878. It was a lightweight lattice design of relatively low cost with a single track. On 28 December 1879, the bridge suddenly collapsed in high winds while a train was crossing, killing everybody on board. The incident is one of the worst bridge-related engineering disasters in history. An enquiry determined that the bridge was insufficiently engineered to cope with high winds.
It was replaced by a second bridge constructed of iron and steel, with a double track, parallel to the remains of the first bridge. Work commenced on 6 July 1883 and the bridge opened in 1887. The new bridge was subject to extensive testing by the Board of Trade, which resulted in a favourable report. In 2003, the bridge was strengthened and refurbished, winning a British Construction Industry Engineering Award to mark the scale and difficulty of the project.
The TayBridge (Scottish Gaelic: Drochaid-rèile na Tatha) carries rail traffic across the Firth of Tay in Scotland between Dundee and the suburb of Wormit...
The TayBridge disaster occurred during a violent storm on Sunday 28 December 1879, when the first Tay Rail Bridge collapsed as a North British Railway...
"The TayBridge Disaster" is a poem written in 1880 by the Scottish poet William McGonagall, who has been acclaimed as the worst poet in history. The poem...
The Tay Road Bridge (Scottish Gaelic: Drochaid-rathaid na Tatha) carries the A92 road across the Firth of Tay from Newport-on-Tay in Fife to Dundee in...
Loch Tay at Killin. The River Tay emerges from Loch Tay at Kenmore, and flows from there to Perth which, in historical times, was its lowest bridging point...
Lodge, Windsor. The death of the Queen Mother set in motion Operation TayBridge, a plan detailing procedures including the dissemination of information...
railway bridges. He was knighted after the successful completion of the first Tay Railway Bridge, but his reputation was destroyed by the subsequent Tay Bridge...
of his work. He wrote about 200 poems, including "The TayBridge Disaster" and "The Famous Tay Whale", which are widely regarded as some of the worst...
Operation TayBridge was put into motion upon her death. For the death of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh the code name was Operation Forth Bridge, and for...
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Firth of Tay in north-east Fife, Scotland. It is located at the southern end of the Tay Rail Bridge and together with Woodhaven and Newport-on-Tay, Wormit...
services linking Dundee (TayBridge) station with Wormit and Newport-on-Tay. These ceased following the opening of the Tay Road Bridge. Other commuter train...
4008919. Lewis, P.R. (2004). Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay: Reinvestigating the TayBridge Disaster of 1879. London: NPI Media Group. pp...
low temperatures. On December 28, 1879, the TayBridge Disaster occurred when the first Tay Rail Bridge collapsed as a North British Railway passenger...
Tournament Bridge (completed c1845), North Ayrshire, Scotland, built from cast iron Original TayBridge from the north (finished 1878) Fallen TayBridge from...
ISBN 0-553-17334-0. Lewis, Peter R. (2004). Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay: Reinvestigating the TayBridge Disaster of 1879. Tempus. ISBN 0-7524-3160-9....
pier at the western end of the mid-Forth island of Inchgarvie. After the TayBridge collapsed in 1879, confidence in Bouch dried up and the work stopped....
1997 was also modelled after Operation TayBridge. As of March 2017[update], the phrase Operation Forth Bridge referred to the death and funeral of Prince...
the rebuilt Dundee TayBridge railway station, which had been built by the North British Railway in 1878 as part of the Tay Rail Bridge project. It was originally...
Suspension Bridge. Following the TayBridge disaster he sat on the commission which investigated the causes and designed the replacement TayBridge. Barlow...
width (at Invergowrie) is 3 mi (4.8 km). Two bridges span the firth: the Tay Road Bridge and the Tay Rail Bridge. The marshy Mugdrum Island is the only major...
the Tay at Perth. In 1864, when a bridge crossing the Tay at Dundee was proposed, Matthew urged that a bridge at Newburgh was preferable to a bridge at...
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accidents. He was a member of the three-man committee of inquiry into the TayBridge disaster. Yolland was born in Plympton St Mary, Devon, the son of the...
some spectacular bridge failures, notably the Ashtabula River Railroad Disaster (1876), TayBridge Disaster (1879), and the Quebec Bridge collapse (1907)...
of the worst rail disasters in British history, the TayBridge disaster. The first Tay Rail Bridge was opened in 1878. It collapsed some 18 months later...
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