The Tay Bridge disaster occurred during a violent European windstorm on Sunday 28 December 1879, when the first Tay Rail Bridge collapsed as a North British Railway passenger train on the Edinburgh to
A contemporary illustration
Original Tay Bridge from the north, c. 1878
Original Tay Bridge from the south
A photograph of the bridge, showing four rails; the inner two guard rails are unpolished.
The NBR 224 and 420 Classes consisted of six steam locomotives of the 4-4-0 wheel arrangement built by the North British Railway in 1871 and 1873. No. 224 had three claims to fame: it was the first in
224 Class, as built
No. 224 following its recovery from the Firth of Tay in 1880
Nisbet's rebuilt locomotive of 1885