Tay Bridge
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The Tay Bridge carries rail traffic across the Firth of Tay in Scotland between Dundee and the suburb of Wormit in Fife. Its span is 10,711 feet. It is the second bridge to occupy the site.
Tay Bridge at Dundee, Scotland, seen from the Dundee Law hill
At dusk. One of the stumps of the original bridge is silhouetted against the sunlit Firth.
The second (current) Tay Rail Bridge from Wormit on the south bank
The current Tay Rail Bridge as seen across the Tay Estuary from Newport-on-Tay
The Tay Bridge Disaster
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"The Tay Bridge Disaster" is a poem written in 1880 by the Scottish poet William McGonagall, who has been derided as the worst poet in history. The poem recounts the events of the evening of 28 Decemb
Tay Bridge
…it is still regarded as having been the most notorious bridge disaster to have ever occurred in the British Isles. The disaster was commemorated in "The Tay Bridge Disaster", one of the best-known verse efforts of William McGonagall. Today, the stumps of the original bridge piers are still visible above the surface of the…
Original Tay Bridge (from the South) the day after the disaster
Photograph of section of the first Tay Bridge before its collapse, with a steam train
Original Tay Bridge (from the north)