WikiVisually
The entire wiki reimagined as a visual magazine with video discovery · Watch your interests come alive
WikiVisually
The entire wiki reimagined as a visual magazine with video discovery · Watch your interests come alive
Nature The World Movies USA Top Art Fine & Rare History Ivy & Inquiry
Thomas Bouch
Videos
Sir Thomas Bouch was a British railway engineer. He was born in Thursby, near Carlisle, Cumberland, and lived in Edinburgh. As manager of the Edinburgh and Northern Railway he introduced the first rol
Thomas Bouch ILN
Thomas Bouch ILN
Bouch's pioneering ferry ramp
Bouch's pioneering ferry ramp
Original Tay Bridge from the north
Original Tay Bridge from the north
Fallen Tay Bridge from the north
Fallen Tay Bridge from the north
Tay Bridge disaster
Videos
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
Thomas Bouch
…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 disaster, in which 75 people are believed to have died as a result of defects in design, construction and maintenance, for all of which Bouch was held responsible…
A contemporary illustration
A contemporary illustration
Original Tay Bridge from the south
Original Tay Bridge from the south
A photograph of the bridge, showing four rails; the inner two guard rails are unpolished.
A photograph of the bridge, showing four rails; the inner two guard rails are unpolished.