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...

"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...

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...

Scotscraig. The Tay bridge is the subject of William McGonagall's poems "Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay" and "The Tay Bridge Disaster", and in the German...

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...

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...

low temperatures. On December 28, 1879, the Tay Bridge Disaster occurred when the first Tay Rail Bridge collapsed as a North British Railway passenger...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

engine to run in Great Britain; it was the locomotive involved in the Tay Bridge disaster; and after rebuilding in 1885, it was the only compound-expansion...

function: The fall of the Dee bridge, 1847 Contemporary account of accident Examination of Tay and Dee bridge disasters Archived 14 May 2008 at the Wayback...

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...

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...

Suspension Bridge. Following the Tay Bridge disaster he sat on the commission which investigated the causes and designed the replacement Tay Bridge. Barlow...

some spectacular bridge failures, notably the Ashtabula River Railroad Disaster (1876), Tay Bridge Disaster (1879), and the Quebec Bridge collapse (1907)...

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....

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...

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...

Wreck), especially remembered for chairing the inquiry into the Tay Bridge disaster in 1879. Rothery was born in London. His father was William Rothery...

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...

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:...

bernd-nebel.de. Retrieved 2 September 2016. "Great Yarmouth suspension bridge disaster memorial unveiled". BBC. 28 September 2013. Retrieved 2 September 2016...

Inchgarvie. After the Tay Bridge collapsed in 1879, confidence in Bouch dried up and the work stopped. The public inquiry into the disaster, chaired by Henry...

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...

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...

"London Bridge is falling down" William McGonagall's 1880 poem on "The Tay Bridge Disaster" Wordsworth's famous sonnet "Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September...

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...