Tour Scotland Travel Video LNER InterCity East Coast Passenger Train Crossing Tay Railway Bridge

Tour Scotland travel video of an LNER InterCity East Coast passenger train crossing the Tay Railway Bridge over the Firth of Tay from Dundee to Wormit on visit to Fife, Scotland. InterCity East Coast is a railway franchise for passenger trains on the East Coast Main Line in the United Kingdom from London King's Cross to Hull, Leeds, Bradford, Harrogate, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee, Inverness and Aberdeen. The present bridge is the second one this site. From about 1854, there had been plans for a Tay crossing, to replace an early train ferry. The first bridge, opened in 1878, was a single track lattice design, notable for lightness and low cost. Its sudden collapse in a high wind on 28 December 1879 was one of the great engineering disasters of history. Seventy five passengers and crew died,The second bridge is a double track construction of iron and steel, opened in 1887 and still in service.

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