Tour Scotland Photograph Sunset December 11th

Tour Scotland Winter photograph of sunset, shot by the River Tay Railway Bridge in Dundee, Scotland. The sun setting behind the Tay Railway Bridge as a Diesel Train crosses from Dundee to Fife.


Tour Scotland Winter photograph of sunset, shot by the River Tay Railway Bridge in Dundee, Scotland.

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Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay. Reinvestigating the Tay Bridge Disaster of 187. Over 125 years ago, barely a year and a half after the Tay Railway Bridge was built, William McGonnagal composed his poem about the Tay Bridge Disaster, the poem about Britain's worst-ever civil engineering disaster. Over 80 people lost their lives in the fall of the Tay Bridge, but how did it happen? The accident reports say that high wind and poor construction were to blame, but Peter Lewis, an Open University engineering professor, tells the real story of how the bridge so spectacularly collapsed in December 1879. Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay: Reinvestigating the Tay Bridge Disaster of 1879 (Revealing History).