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    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...
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    "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...
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    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...
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    (initially 2025). 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...
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  • The Tay Bridge is a railway bridge across the Firth of Tay at Dundee, Scotland: Tay Bridge may also refer to: Tay Road Bridge, across the Firth of Tay at...
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    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...
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    low temperatures. On December 28, 1879, the Tay Bridge Disaster occurred when the first Tay Rail Bridge collapsed as a North British Railway passenger...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    Suspension Bridge. Following the Tay Bridge disaster he sat on the commission which investigated the causes and designed the replacement Tay Bridge. Barlow...
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    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...
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  • some spectacular bridge failures, notably the Ashtabula River Railroad Disaster (1876), Tay Bridge Disaster (1879), and the Quebec Bridge collapse (1907)...
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  • 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....
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • Wreck), especially remembered for chairing the inquiry into the Tay Bridge disaster in 1879. Rothery was born in London. His father was William Rothery...
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    He was a member of the three-man committee of inquiry into the Tay Bridge disaster. Yolland was born in Plympton St Mary, Devon, the son of the land...
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  • 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...
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    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:...
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    "London Bridge is falling down" William McGonagall's 1880 poem on "The Tay Bridge Disaster" Wordsworth's famous sonnet "Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September...
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    Thames Tacoma Narrows Bridge (1940), original Tacoma Narrows Bridge that collapsed in 1940 Tay Bridge disaster Notes "Millennium Bridge London". Britain Visitor...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • the journalist John Prebble concerning Tay Bridge Disaster of December 28, 1879, one of the worst ever disasters on the rail network in Britain. It is...
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