The Tay Bridge disaster occurred during a violent storm on Sunday 28 December 1879, when the first Tay Rail Bridge collapsed as a North British Railway... 89 KB (12,419 words) - 23:31, 11 April 2024 |
"The Tay Bridge Disaster" is a poem written in 1880 by the Scottish poet William McGonagall, who has been acclaimed as the worst poet in history. The... 6 KB (638 words) - 04:34, 7 January 2024 |
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... 36 KB (4,814 words) - 15:40, 9 April 2024 |
Queen Mother Tay Bridge disaster Category:Bridges across the River Tay, for other bridges across the River Tay The Tay Bridge Disaster, a poem written... 580 bytes (114 words) - 21:42, 5 March 2022 |
William McGonagall (section Tay Bridge Disaster) of his work. He wrote about 200 poems, including "The Tay Bridge Disaster" and "The Famous Tay Whale", which are widely regarded as some of the worst... 35 KB (3,918 words) - 18:58, 20 April 2024 |
low temperatures. On December 28, 1879, the Tay Bridge Disaster occurred when the first Tay Rail Bridge collapsed as a North British Railway passenger... 17 KB (2,127 words) - 16:37, 21 March 2024 |
George Biddell Airy (section Tay Bridge disaster) 4008919. Lewis, P.R. (2004). Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay: Reinvestigating the Tay Bridge Disaster of 1879. London: NPI Media Group. pp. 115–116... 43 KB (5,034 words) - 13:13, 17 April 2024 |
History of Dundee (section Tay Bridge Disaster) McGonagall's The Tay Bridge Disaster recounts the tragedy in verse. perhaps one of his best known poems. The public inquiry of the Tay Bridge disaster in 1880... 107 KB (12,526 words) - 18:38, 29 March 2024 |
Thomas Bouch (section Tay Bridge) 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... 15 KB (1,850 words) - 20:23, 3 April 2024 |
David Kirkaldy (section Tay Bridge Disaster) tested many samples taken from the first Tay railway bridge for the official Inquiry on the Tay Bridge Disaster. He confirmed that the wrought iron tie... 8 KB (895 words) - 05:02, 7 March 2024 |
Benjamin Baker (engineer) (category British bridge engineers) Metropolitan Railway (London). He was also a key expert witness in the Tay rail bridge disaster of 1879. He designed the cylindrical vessel in which Cleopatra's... 17 KB (2,100 words) - 01:16, 14 March 2024 |
Kirkaldy Testing Museum (section Tay bridge disaster) the Tay Bridge Disaster of 1879 and the BOAC Flight 781 De Havilland Comet crash of 1954. In 1880 Kirkaldy tested many samples from the first Tay railway... 10 KB (1,317 words) - 07:11, 5 December 2023 |
along the south bank of the Firth of Tay in Fife. The line was opened in 1879, and connected to the Tay Bridge, giving quick access to Dundee; daily... 16 KB (2,295 words) - 15:54, 9 April 2024 |
some spectacular bridge failures, notably the Ashtabula River Railroad Disaster (1876), Tay Bridge Disaster (1879), and the Quebec Bridge collapse (1907)... 36 KB (3,644 words) - 11:21, 26 March 2024 |
ISBN 0-553-17334-0. Lewis, Peter R. (2004). Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay: Reinvestigating the Tay Bridge Disaster of 1879. Tempus. ISBN 0-7524-3160-9.... 7 KB (830 words) - 03:56, 5 February 2024 |
seeming technical flaws, as in his poem "The Tay Bridge Disaster": Oh! Ill-fated bridge of the silv'ry Tay, I now must conclude my lay By telling the world... 3 KB (332 words) - 17:22, 21 March 2024 |
Dugald Drummond (section Tay bridge disaster) expert witness in the Tay Bridge disaster of 1879, being called to give evidence about the state of the track after the disaster. Although Ladybank, a... 12 KB (1,284 words) - 18:58, 29 March 2024 |
Henry Cadogan Rothery (section Tay bridge disaster) Wreck), especially remembered for chairing the inquiry into the Tay Bridge disaster in 1879. Rothery was born in London. His father was William Rothery... 5 KB (618 words) - 13:11, 30 March 2024 |
when the train derails and plunges into the River Tay below, a retelling of the actual Tay Bridge disaster of 1879. In the second part of the book, James... 7 KB (887 words) - 23:46, 25 July 2023 |
Cast iron (section Cast-iron bridges) Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay: Reinvestigating the Tay Bridge Disaster of 1879, Tempus (2004) ISBN 0-7524-3160-9 Peter R Lewis, Disaster on the Dee:... 30 KB (3,754 words) - 18:17, 17 April 2024 |
bernd-nebel.de. Retrieved 2 September 2016. "Great Yarmouth suspension bridge disaster memorial unveiled". BBC. 28 September 2013. Retrieved 2 September 2016... 158 KB (3,864 words) - 21:35, 26 April 2024 |
Symphony Orchestra). Lumley wrote the book Tay Bridge Disaster: The People's Story about the collapse of the Tay Bridge in 1879 while a train was attempting... 6 KB (630 words) - 18:02, 14 April 2024 |
epic poem The Tay Bridge Disaster to commemorate the event. The disaster shocks engineers into creating an improved crossing both on the Tay, as well as... 90 KB (10,808 words) - 21:52, 26 April 2024 |
946–962. Peter R. Lewis, Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay: Reinvestigating the Tay Bridge Disaster of 1879, Tempus, 2004, ISBN 0-7524-3160-9... 21 KB (2,793 words) - 14:49, 22 April 2024 |