Tour Scotland photograph of the David Cunningham gravestone in the Churchyard in Kilmany, Fife, Scotland. David lost his life during the Tay Railway Bridge Disaster of 1879. He was just 20 years old. On 28 December, 1879, the 13 raised spans at the centre of the Tay Bridge, the "high girders", fell, taking with them 160 yards of the bridge, and a railway train with 75 men, women and children on board. This tragically ended the dream of Thomas Bouch, recently knighted for his work on the bridge, and to some extent the unparalleled reputation of British engineering in works of this kind.
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