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Tay Bridge from the Fife Side
DP 447268
Description Tay Bridge from the Fife Side
Date 1/1/1879 to 31/12/1879
Collection Records of the Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network (SCRAN), Edinburgh, Scotland
Catalogue Number DP 447268
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content View of a railway bridge with the central girders missing; coal heaps in the foreground and cottages on the shoreline below; city and hills beyond. Wormit coaling station in the foreground ? The passenger station at Wormit, not in view, was closed in 1969. Several works chimneys are belching smoke over the city of Dundee on the far side of the Tay estuary. TheTay Railway Bridge was opened in May 1878 and collapsed on the night of 28 December 1879 as a passenger train was crossing over to Dundee, with the loss of around 75 people.
Accession Number 2024/57
External Reference 000-000-129-645-C, 000-000-129-645-R
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/2770027
File Format (JPG) JPEG bitmap
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