Hogmanay Afternoon Diesel Passenger Train Crossing Tay Railway Bridge Scotland

Tour Scotland Hogmanay Afternoon 4K travel video of a diesel passenger train crossing the Tay Railway Bridge over the Firth of Tay on visit with friends to Dundee, Tayside. The train was crossing to Wormit in Fife and then onwards to Edinburgh. The present structure 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. Hogmanay is the Scots word for the last day of the year in this case New Year's Eve, December 31st, 2019.

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