Spring Drive From St Andrews To The Harbour In Tayport Fife Scotland

Tour Scotland travel video of a Spring road trip drive, with Scottish music, on the A914, B945 and other roads from St Andrews, through Balmullo, on ancestry visit to the harbour in Tayport, Fife. ( While keeping a Social Distance you can still drive and take a walk during the Coronavirus Pandemic keeping yourself out of close contact with other people ) Tayport Harbour was arguably the world's first roll on roll off ferry crossing the Tay at Tayport and over to Broughty Ferry. The current harbour was rebuilt 1847 by the Edinburgh and Northern Railway as a basin formed by a pier and two quays; it was the terminus of the ferry to Broughty Ferry which served to complete the link up of the east coast railway between Edinburgh and Aberdeen. The harbour fell into disuse for that purpose when the first Tay Rail bridge was built but was then brought back into use as a rail ferry link when the first Tay bridge was destroyed in a storm in 1879. The Harbour was eventually taken over by a Timber processing company, Donaldsons of Tayport, and was used by cargo boats of up to 3000 tons carrying potatoes, grain, esparto grass and timber until the 1980s when the timber firm began to wind down its operation.

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