Winter Tay Railway Bridge Over Firth Of Tay On Visit To Dundee Tayside Scotland

Tour Scotland Winter 4K travel video of the Tay Railway Bridge over the Firth of Tay on visit to Dundee, Tayside. ScotRail Scotland’s main train operator reduced services from 80 to 65 per cent of normal, and that was expected to mean more than 300 trains being removed from the timetable to help save money when passenger numbers are still just 10 per cent of normal during the lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic. Remaining train services are aimed at key workers, such as NHS staff. 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. The Tay Bridge carries the railway across the Firth of Tay in Scotland between Dundee and the suburb of Wormit in Fife. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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